Our Nowhere: The Long History of the Panhandle - Mapping Nowhere, Part 4

J. H. Colton. 1862. “Colton’s rail-road and military map of the United States, Mexico, the West Indies, &c.”

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Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress

After the War of 1812, the United States recovered, even as the Mexican empire remained badly bloodied by its war of independence. But the Mexican government also had a new problem to deal with: mass numbers of American immigrants crossing over their northern border, into Texas.