Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1990
Abstract
This volume, the latest in a well-known series published by the University of Oklahoma Press, offers sixty-four topics relating to the history and geography of Texas with accompanying maps. The first six topics outline basic geographic characteristics-location, topography, physio-graphical regions, rainfall, and native plant life. Then follow two dozen maps that treat topics antedating the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845. They include the route followed by various explorers from Cabeza de Vaca in the sixteenth century to the James Long expeditions of 1819-22, as well as several topics relating to the Republic of Texas, 1836. The next cluster of maps concerns early statehood, including the Mexican and Civil wars. The last group of maps treats more topics such as transportation systems, military installations, state and national parks, colleges and universities, and metropolitan statistical areas.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly SUMMER 1990 .Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.