Download or read book Survey of the United States Mexico Boundary 1849 1855 Background Study written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey of the United States Mexico Boundary 1849 1855 written by Lenard E. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping the United States Mexico Boundary 1849 1857 written by Paula Rebert and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey Geological reports of Dr C C Parry and assistant Arthur Schott written by William Hemsley Emory and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior pt 1 Personal account General description of the country Lower Rio Bravo From mouth of Devil s river to El Paso del Norte Sketch of territory acquired by treaty of Dec 30 1853 From the 111th meridian of longitude to the Pacific ocean Report of Lieut Michler Astronomical and geodetic work Meteorology pt 2 Geological reports of Dr C C Parry and assistant Arthur Schott Notes by W H Emory Paleontology and geology of the boundary by written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Gran L nea written by Paula Rebert and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, which officially ended the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, cost Mexico half its territory, while the United States gained land that became California, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Because the new United States-Mexico border ran through territory that was still incompletely mapped, the treaty also called for government commissions from both nations to locate and mark the boundary on the ground. This book documents the accomplishments of both the U.S. and the Mexican Boundary Commissions that mapped the boundary between 1849 and 1857, as well as the fifty-four pairs of maps produced by their efforts and the ongoing importance of these historical maps in current boundary administration. Paula Rebert explores how, despite the efforts of both commissions to draw neutral, scientific maps, the actual maps that resulted from their efforts reflected the differing goals and outlooks of the two countries. She also traces how the differences between the U.S. and Mexican maps have had important consequences for the history of the boundary.
Download or read book Report Upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian written by Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Southwest Ornithologists 1528 1900 written by Dan Fischer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its colorful landscape and wonderful diversity of plant and animal communities, the southwestern borderlands have attracted naturalists for centuries. As Col. Thomas Henry noted in 1853, there “are to be found many curious birds, peculiar to the country.” This book identifies more than 100 early ornithologists and explorers who entered the Southwest from 1528 to 1900, all of whom have contributed in significant ways to our understanding of the region’s avian life. Dan Fischer identifies those individuals who documented the natural history of the Southwest and summarizes their contributions to our knowledge about the region’s birds—particularly through discovering and naming them. He tells why the ornithologists came to the region, what they saw, who described and named the new discoveries, and who were the first to sketch or paint new birds. Beginning with accounts of the earliest Spanish explorers such as Cabeza de Vaca and Coronado, Fischer considers all who visited the region through the end of the nineteenth century, including such renowned naturalists as William Gambel, John McCown, Adolphus Heermann, Elliott Coues, Charles Bendire, and Henry Henshaw. In between, he recalls English mining speculators, French traders, army explorers, railroad surveyors, and more—all of whom contributed to ornithological knowledge. Although focusing on ornithologists, Fischer’s text reveals the wonderful variety of avian species in the region and their relationship with human history. Featuring a comprehensive bibliography, illustrations, and maps that portray the westward march of exploration, it is a major sourcebook for southwestern ornithology and an essential volume for anyone interested in birds.
Download or read book Memoir to Accompany the Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean written by Gouverneur Kemble Warren and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the United States and Mexican Bondary Survey written by William Helmsley Emory and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Presidio to the Pecos River written by Orville B. Shelburne, Jr. and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1848 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War described a boundary between the two countries that was to be ascertained by a joint boundary commission effort. The section of the boundary along the Rio Grande from Presidio to the mouth of the Pecos River was arguably the most challenging, and it was surveyed by two American parties, one led by civilian surveyor M. T. W. Chandler in 1852, and the second led by Lieutenant Nathaniel Michler in 1853. Our understanding of these two surveys across the greater Big Bend has long been limited to the official reports and maps housed in the National Archives and never widely published. The discovery by Orville B. Shelburne of the journal kept by Dr. Charles C. Parry, surgeon-botanist-geologist for the 1852 party, has dramatically enriched the story by giving us a firsthand view of the Chandler boundary survey as it unfolded. Parry’s journal forms the basis of From Presidio to the Pecos River, which documents the day-to-day working of the survey teams. The story Shelburne tells is one of scientific exploration under duress—surveyors stranded in towering canyons overnight without food or shelter; piloting inflatable rubber boats down wild rivers; rising to the challenges of a profoundly remote area, including the possibility of Indian attack. Shelburne’s comparison of the original boundary maps with their modern counterparts reveals the limitations of terrain and equipment on the survey teams. Shelburne's book provides a window on the adventure, near disaster, and true accomplishment of the surveyors’ work in documenting the course of the Rio Grande across the Big Bend region.
Download or read book Senate Documents written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle Against Extinction written by W. L. Minckley and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962 the Green River was poisoned and its native fishes killed so that the new Flaming Gorge Reservoir could be stocked with non-native game fishes for sportsmen. This incident was representative of water management in the West, where dams and other projects have been built to serve human needs without consideration for the effects of water diversion or depletion on the ecosystem. Indeed, it took a Supreme Court decision in 1976 to save Devils Hole pupfish from habitat destruction at the hands of developers. Nearly a third of the native fish fauna of North America lives in the arid West; this book traces their decline toward extinction as a result of human interference and the threat to their genetic diversity posed by decreases in their populations. What can be done to slow or end this tragedy? As the most comprehensive treatment ever attempted on the subject, Battle Against Extinction shows how conservation efforts have been or can be used to reverse these trends. In covering fishes in arid lands west of the Mississippi Valley, the contributors provide a species-by-species appraisal of their status and potential for recovery, bringing together in one volume nearly all of the scattered literature on western fishes to produce a monumental work in conservation biology. They also ponder ethical considerations related to the issue, ask why conservation efforts have not proceeded at a proper pace, and suggest how native fish protection relates to other aspects of biodiversity planetwide. Their insights will allow scientific and public agencies to evaluate future management of these animal populations and will offer additional guidance for those active in water rights and conservation biology. First published in 1991, Battle Against Extinction is now back in print and available as an open-access e-book thanks to the Desert Fishes Council.
