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Texas to Pacific Coast stagecoach schedule and price list, 1838

Schedule and ticket prices for the San Antonio & San Diego Mail-Line, circa 1838.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Buffalo Bayou, which became the Houston Ship Canal, 1870s

Steamboat loading cotton on Buffalo Bayou, connected to the Gulf of Mexico, Houston, Texas, 1870s.
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Typical arrangement of a Spanish colonial mission settlement in North America.
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