Mapping Our Way: Covering New Mexico’s history, from Spanish Colonial to the Mexican Republic to the territory years

(True West) The smallest is just four inches by five-and-a-half inches, showing the Copernican Universe. The largest is 13 feet by 122 feet, showing railroad lines for the Elkhart and Santa Fe Railway in 1930.

Or how about the one that shows Santa Fe in Texas? Or California as a horizontal state, swallowing up what is now Arizona?

All are treasures at the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library in the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They are among 6,000 maps cataloged over the last four years by the Historic New Mexico Maps project. Continued