Author: Fred Roeder, LS

Even a casual user of a map of the State of New Mexico will notice the coincidence of its exterior boundaries with lines…

Spanish land grants – the words evoke a fascinating image of conquistadors and Franciscan friars in any student of Southwestern History. It is…

The April 1988 Newsletter posed the question of a patron saint for surveyors. This writer may have been to rash to condemn the…

About fifty miles northwest of Madrid and near the western slopes of the Sierra de Guadarrama lies the ancient city of Segovia. The…

A N T E P A S A D O S JUN. ’88  |  INTRODUCTION TO A NEW COLUMN JUL. ’88  |  BUFFALO…

BIBLIOGRAPHY The numbers in brackets at the end of each entry correspond to a numbered index of Fred’s articles (see below) Abbott, Jacob….

By some accounts Don Luis María Cabeza de Baca was ‘a miserable fellow’. One of Nuevo Mexico’s ricos [rich], he claimed as his…

When in 1917 a progressive New Mexico State Legislature passed an act to regulate the practice of surveying under which surveyors had to…

On the first day of September 1902, a 24-year-old Swiss surveyor stood behind his theodolite on the summit of 10,686-foot-high Dent du Midi,…