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Per The Portal to Texas History, this map is in the public domain. It was created in 1938 by Andrew Jackson Houston (who died in 1941) and published the same year (by Anson Jones Press). Registration was not renewed, per the Copyright Renewal database at Stanford University [1]archive copy at the Wayback Machine.
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