America Transformed: Published a year after the annexation of Texas, at the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, this map depicts the northern region of Mexico (today part of the United States). It reveals a cultural landscape with both Spanish and Native settlements. Besides the Spanish settlements in southeastern Texas, there were three other clusters in this northern region – the upper Rio Grande (New Mexico), southern Arizona, and the California coast. While some Spanish settlements had been established more than a century earlier, Spanish culture was imposed on numerous Native groups already living in the area including the Pueblo, Numunu (Comanche), N’Dee (Apache), Hopitushínumu (Hopi), and Diné (Navajo).
America Transformed: Viewpoint: This map offers a great example of the fluidity of geography, as we can see how its meaning had shifted and would shift again. Lost in the designs of nation-states are the numerous indigenous geographies (still visible in maps like this) that remain in place and persist to this day. –Natchee Blu Barnd, Oregon State University
segun lo organizado y definido por las varias actas del Congreso de dicha República: y construido por las mejores autoridades ; lo publican J. Disturnell.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
Differs from other 1846 variants in having all the following details: "scale of English miles" instead of "scale of miles," "revised edition," "Rinconada Pass" near Monterrey, Mexico, and trail between San Antonio and Austin (source: Rittenhouse's Disturnell's treaty map. Stagecoach Press, 1965.).
Prime meridian: Washington.
Inset: Carta de los caminos &c. desde Vera Cruz y Alvarado a Méjico."
Includes illustration, distance table and statistics table.
In Spanish. Some labels in English.
Notes (exhibitions):
Exhibited: "America transformed. Part 1: the United States expands westward," organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 2019.
IIIF Manifest