Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was Texas as these 19th-century illustrations show. In the late 1800s, several artists took the time to draw "bird's-eye" views of the state's early cities ...

Satellite imagery has made the jobs of cartographers much easier, but in the 1930s when Texas' oil boom was in full swing, citizens sometimes had to rely on sarcastic hand-drawn maps. Or ...

Austin’s famed map of Texas—published in 1846 ... They’re part of the old Texas milieu, perhaps, is the best way of explaining it.” ...