Historic Map : Tardieu Map of Mexico, Texas and California, 1810, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 18in The chart was issued about

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Victoria "with Gold Deposits"

Long a place of exile and punishment

Though the westwards passage is incomplete

The World with Explorers' Tracks

Historic Map : Tardieu Map of Mexico, Texas and California, 1810, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 18in The chart was issued aboutThis is an unusual 1810 map of Mexico and the United States by the French cartographer Ambrose Tardieu. Depicts all of Mexico and much of the United States shortly following the acquisition of Louisiana but prior to the acquisition of Florida, Texas and Upper California. This map exhibits a curious ephemeral mapping of the American Southwest based upon the Dominguez Escalante expedition of 1776 and 1777 and Zebulon Pike's expedition of 1806. Both Lake