This volume illustrates the history of the Lone Star State through
color plates of sixty-four historic Texas maps from the Marty and
Yana Davis Map Collection, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, and
includes ten original essays written by noted historians. Going to
Texas is a catalog that will accompany the exhibition of the Davis
Map Collection to ten museums throughout the Southwest over a
period of two years. It will begin in Dallas at the Hall of State
with the Dallas Historical Society and conclude at the National
Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth. The maps range from
the earliest sixteenth-century maps of New Spain through early
settlement, the Republic and statehood, and into the twenty-first
century. These objects are not only historical documents but also
served to promote settlement or another aspect of Texas, to chart
transport lines, and to guide the military. The earliest maps
demonstrate cartography as an art that only centuries later evolved
into a science. The accompanying essays cover the Spanish
exploration, the Louisiana Purchase and the Texas borderlands,
empresario settlement, the Republic of Texas, the Trans-Pecos,
statehood and the Confederacy, the end of the nineteenth century,
the Mexican wars, and Texas in the twentieth century. They provide
the historical context in which the maps should be viewed. The maps
are presented not only as historical artifacts but also as
representations of culture, art, politics, and the great trends of
industrialization and westward expansion. They reflect much of the
American movement toward Manifest Destiny and the creation of the
myths of "The West." The collection serves not only to illustrate
Texas history but alsoAmerican and European cultures over the
centuries. Both the map collector and the amateur will benefit from
reading this catalog. The Center for Texas Studies at TCU is
designed to celebrate all that makes Texas distinctive. It is
housed in AddRan College of Humanities and Social Sciences, where
various disciplines and programs can act in concert to foster and
nurture the essence of Texas, History is, of course, central, but
Texas literature, anthropology, ethnography, politics, religions,
philosophy, and design and textiles all represent elements that are
a part of the mosaic of Texas.
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