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historical documents but also served to promote settlement or 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 also American and European cultures 
over the centuries. Both the map collector and the amateur will 
benefit from reading this catalog.

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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.