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Pub Year	Map Maker	Pub Place	Map Title	Map Price (USD)	Picture
1873	Colton, C.W. & G.B.	New York	Colton's Texas	$400	Picture

A lithographed map, with hand colored wash

Size: 17.5 inches X 28 inches; Scale: 1 inch = approximately 33 miles.

Map Type: Atlas

This is a superior very clean copy, with vivid color. A slight amount of darkening on the centerline crease. Narrow margins as the image was stretched to it's maximum size for the paper.

This large double page format map is one of the most detailed maps of early Texas, created just after the Civil War and during the period of large cattle drives from central and southern Texas to Kansas and beyond. It features large inset maps of the northern panhandle, Galveston and Matagorda Bays and Sabine Lake.

The map shows and expanding west Texas with towns, rivers, mountains, roads, railroads, stations, and forts identified. This map is rare.

References: Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, Volume 1 Page 289, Colton, G.W. & C.B., Scott, Valerie, Map Collector Publications, Tring, Hertz, England, 1999