Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey ; made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior

Title:

Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey ; made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior

Creator:

United States. Department of the Interior

Abstract:

Emory’s incredibly thorough report on government explorations in the Southwest includes, along with extensive text, illustrations of biological and geological discoveries, anthropological studies of the Mexican and Native American populations, and landscape illustrations showing views across the border from diverse locations and varying perspectives. The accounts were important in noting that the deserts of the southwest were not an agrarian paradise. Emory's own contribution to the Report is cartographic; as the Commission's chief astronomer, he had made most of the several thousand observations that were incorporated into the maps, which helped to settled boundary questions that cleared the way for railroads.

Issued:

1857

Subject:

Mexico--Boundaries--United States, Botany--Southwest, New, United States--Boundaries--Mexico, Geology--Southwest, New, Zoology--Southwest,New, and Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)

Rights:

A copyright review process in April 2022 has determined that this particular item is in the public domain. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Spatial:

United States, Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.), Mexico, and Southwest, New

Attribution:

United States. Department of the Interior, Girard, Charles Frederic--1822-1895, Schott, Arthur--1814-1875, Parry, C.C.--(Charles Christopher)--1823-1890, Englemann, George--1809-1884, Baird, Spencer Fullerton--1811-1877, Hall, James--1811-1898, Torrey, John--1796-1873, Conrad, T.A.--(Timothy Abbott)--1803-1877, Emory, William H.--(William Hemsley)--1811-1887, and A copyright review process in April 2022 has determined that this particular item is in the public domain. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Description:

Held in the Floyd and Louise Chapman Texas and Borderlands Collection at Cushing Memorial Library and Archives on the campus of Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas.

Exhibit Tags:

Tools Techniques and Methods

Call Number:

F786 .U45 1857b Vol. 1

Contributor:

Conrad, T.A.--(Timothy Abbott)--1803-1877, Baird, Spencer Fullerton--1811-1877, Emory, William H.--(William Hemsley)--1811-1887, Englemann, George--1809-1884, Parry, C.C.--(Charles Christopher)--1823-1890, Schott, Arthur--1814-1875, Hall, James--1811-1898, Girard, Charles Frederic--1822-1895, and Torrey, John--1796-1873

Language:

eng