This map was issued on May 21, 1828, less than a month after the U.S. Senate ratified an agreement with the Mexican government, basically recognizing the boundary that had existed between the United States and New Spain before Mexican Independence in 1821. The map simply copied and translated into Spanish Henry S. Tanner's Map of the United States of Mexico, which in turn was based on the southwest portion of Tanner's Map of North America of 1822. White, Gallaher, and White's map was issued again sixteen years later, in 1844, to coincide with the growing interest in Texas annexation. As tensions with Mexico increased, New York publisher John Disturnell bought the copper plates for this map and reissued it beginning the next year with his own name on it. U.S. and Mexican negotiators for the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the U.S.-Mexico War used Disturnell's 1847 editions, complete with some of the cartographic errors that dated back to the time of this map and before.
Wheat, Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West, vol. 2, pp. 95, 234, no. 384; James C. Martin and Robert Sidney Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900 (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1984, first published 1999), pp. 137-139, plates 37, 38; Jack Jackson, "General Taylor's 'Astonishing' Map of Northeastern Mexico," Southwestern Historical Quarterly CI:2 (October, 1997): 143-173; Lawrence Martin, Disturnell's Map (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937); Wheat, Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West, vol. 3, pp. 6, 259, no. 540.
