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"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…

The oldest published map of what was to become New Mexico can be found in an atlas published in 1597 by Cornelius Wytfliet,…

In 1988 Gilbert Chaves of Las Cruces, in conjunction with NMPS (then NMASM) Southern Rio Grande Chapter, researched the location of the south…