This is an incredible reproduction of an extremely rare manuscript map, hand drawn by the Father of Texas” – Stephen F. Austin. This map shows the sparsely settled northeastern frontier of Mexico, mapped when Stephen F. Austin visited there in 1821-1822 to locate and confirm a colonization grant originally made to his father. As a result of his travels, he prepared a manuscript map showing settlements in eastern Texas, annotated to show different types of vegetation, including prairie land in yellow and wood land in green – making it one of the earliest examples of American thematic mapping. This map of the Mexican province of Texas includes streams, forests, plains, pictorial representation of mountains, European and Native American settlements, and roads including “Camino de Comanches”, “Camino que va � los Opelousas” and “Camino que va � Nachistoches”. This map recognizes the R�o Nueces as the boundary between the province of Texas and the adjacent provinces of Coahuila and Nuevo Santander. The United States is shown on the east separated from Texas by the Sabine and Red Rivers. This map was done with pen and ink and watercolor.”