Month: April 2009

The Historical Society of New Mexico was founded by a group of New Mexico citizens in Santa Fe on December 26, 1859. At…

The name Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco is better known amongst art historians than amongst surveyors. As an 18th century Santa Fe artist,…

"Let none dare to attribute the shame Of misuse of projections to Mercator’s name; But smother quite, and let infamy light Upon those…

The following is a letter of instructions to Deputy Surveyor John W. Garretson for the survey of the Initial Point, Principal Meridian and…

"The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers," was the proposal that William Shakespeare put into the mouth of a vile…

"It ain’t the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It is the things we know that ain’t so." Josh Billings…

Whatever one may want to call the historic leaders of New Mexico, empire builders they were not. Oate could have laid the groundwork…

[Note: To avoid confusion with modern units of measure of like name all equivalents are given either in millimeter (mm) or U.S. Survey…

Among the many historical treasures of the Fray Anglico Chvez History Library in Santa Fe are diaries and other papers of John A….

"He never seemed much interested in returning to Ohio. He had learned to speak Laguna." Leslie Marmon Silko* When I dig into heir…