Review of Contours of Discovery: Printed Maps Delineating the Texas and Southwestern Chapters in the Cartographic History of North America, 1513- 1930

Authors

Frederick C. Luebke, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

1992

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 12:1 (Winter 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

It is unusual to review a book that is a decade old, as Contours of Discovery is, but this is an unusual publication. As fresh and vital today as it was ten years ago, it consists of two parts: The first is a portfolio of twenty-two historical maps reproduced in color, all of which relate to Texas history; the second is a paper-bound "user's guide" that offers both an essay on cartographic history as it pertains to Texas and a section of commentaries on each of the maps included in the portfolio.