La Gran Línea : : Mapping the United States–Mexico Boundary, 1849–1857 /

La Gran Línea : : Mapping the United States–Mexico Boundary, 1849–1857 / / Paula Rebert.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, which officially ended the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, cost Mexico half its territory, while the United States gained land that became California, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Because the new United States-Mexico border ran thro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Rebert, Paula,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2001
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (279 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • INDEX MAPS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE On the Line: Field Surveys
  • CHAPTER TWO The Boundary Office: Mapmaking
  • CHAPTER FOUR Cooperation in Surveying and Mapping: The Land Boundary
  • CHAPTER FIVE Controversy on the Boundary: Surveys of the Rio Grande
  • CHAPTER SIX Authoritative Maps and the True Line
  • APPENDIX Map Authorities
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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