Month: April 2009

The Monastery of Santa Clara in the old Castilian market town of Tordesillas was originally built as a royal palace. Today, its Gothic…

In New Mexico as well as in Arizona the name of Will Tipton is inextricable linked to investigations of Spanish and Mexican land…

The tangle of crooked, narrow streets and romantic nooks in the historic center of most German cities has always both enchanted and perplexed…

The Surveyors To praise surveyors I was never timid, I scan the verses of the Iliad, And find Athena at a bound’ry limit…

The U.S. Land Office was an intensely political one, and the office of surveyor general was so important, that when President Cleveland in…

Note: The coordinates of the NE corner of the plaza in Santa Fe, as scaled by me from a 7 1/2 min. quad…

Among early New Mexico surveyors one of the most widely known was Pitt Ross. Not only did he play a leading role in…

The location of New Mexicos west boundary is based on the geographic coordinates of Ship Rock established by the Wheeler survey of 1874….

For many years there circulated amongst surveyors a copy of a letter, probably apocryphal, in which an attorney traces the title of a…

Two prominent southwestern historians wrote in an introduction of a jointly published book: "Americans are a people peculiarly addicted to celebrating anniversaries." I…