territorial+boundaries+of+Southern+Texas

= TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES =

"The region includes all of the present-day states of [|California], [|Nevada], and [|Utah]; as well as portions of: The treaty also specified the Texas-Mexican border as being at the [|Rio Grande] (Río Bravo del Norte). Previously the portion of [|Texas] between the [|Nueces River] and the Rio Grande had remained disputed throughout the existence of the [|Republic of Texas]. The United States had already claimed the area as part of the [|Texas Annexation] in 1845. The portion of [|New Mexico] east of the Rio Grande had been claimed by the Republic of Texas and is therefore usually shown as part of the Texas Annexation. In actuality New Mexico was never divided at the Rio Grande, was never controlled by the Republic of Texas, and was widely separated from Texas by the [|Comancheria] which was not under either Anglo or Hispanic control. [|Stephen Kearny]'s U.S. [|Army of the West] from [|Fort Leavenworth, Kansas] took New Mexico without resistance in 1846 early in the Mexican-American War. It was quickly provided with its own territorial government and was never governed by the State of Texas." BY WIKIPEDIA  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Cession#Territory
 * [|Arizona] excluding the region later annexed in the [|Gadsden Purchase]
 * [|Colorado] west of the boundary of the former [|Republic of Texas]
 * [|New Mexico] west of the [|Rio Grande] and excluding the Gadsden Purchase, and
 * [|Wyoming] west of the former Republic of Texas boundary and south of the 42nd parallel.