In August of 1859, surveyors marked the 100th Meridian at the Red River - the line that marks the eastern boundary of the Texas panhandle...

The map by Jean Baptist Franquelin, printed in Paris (France) in 1684, is a facsimile of the original that has been lost. It now resides...

Around 1821, Spanish Texas became Mexican Texas.

I was nosing around the digital collections listed at by the Louisiana State University (Shreveport) libraries and found the Parker map.

A geological map of coal claims in the "Coal Country" around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900.

The Chihuahua Trail was a short-lived road blazed by merchants from Mexico and the U.S.

Most antebellum towns west of the Mississippi River did not survive the railroad boom and became ghosts.