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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…

The following column I wrote under the title In Retrospect for the July 1998 issue of BENCHMARKS. I made some changes to reflect…

In the spacious, Southwestern style home he built in 1975 high on the steep west bank of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque I…

In the 17th and 18th centuries the principal instrument of the navigator at sea was the Davis quadrant, also known as English quadrant,…

William Pelham held office as the first Surveyor General of New Mexico from 1854 until 1860. His tenure has been examined by Victor…