Month: April 2009

A N T E P A S A D O S JUN. ’88 | INTRODUCTION TO A NEW COLUMN JUL. ’88 | BUFFALO…

BIBLIOGRAPHY The numbers in brackets at the end of each entry correspond to a numbered index of Fred’s articles (see below) Abbott, Jacob….

By some accounts Don Luis Mara Cabeza de Baca was a miserable fellow. One of Nuevo Mexicos ricos [rich], he claimed as his…

When in 1917 a progressive New Mexico State Legislature passed an act to regulate the practice of surveying under which surveyors had to…

On the first day of September 1902, a 24-year-old Swiss surveyor stood behind his theodolite on the summit of 10,686-foot-high Dent du Midi,…

The following is a German legend which I found in a collection of folk-tales "Das Grosse Buch der Volkssagen" by Edmund Mudrak, upon…

Every self-respecting surveyor knows that our first, third, and sixteenth Presidents had for a brief period in their lives been surveyors. But not…

Every literate American is familiar with the story of how the Indians sold Manhattan Island for $24. It has been told and retold…

Ninety-seven years after the Court of Private Land Claims (CPLC) completed its work to settle Spanish and Mexican land grants, the issue is…

I have long believed that surveying is truly the oldest profession, eons ahead of whatever is in second place. No other human activity…