Author: Fred Roeder, LS
03.21.2009
Land Claims Act of 2001
Ninety-seven years after the Court of Private Land Claims (CPLC) completed its work to settle Spanish and Mexican land grants the issue is…
03.21.2009
Centesimus
Mark Twain once said: "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." To this end I believe that every now and then…
03.21.2009
Geographic Centers
“It is the theory that decides what can be observed”. —Albert Einstein
03.21.2009
Perhaps the Most Incorrect of Any Land Line
In the April 2006 issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly appeared an article by Ralph H. Brock entitled “Perhaps the Most Incorrect of…
03.21.2009
New Mexico’s International Border
New Mexico’s 179.47 miles of international boundary are the result of the Gadsden Treaty of 1853. The line was originally surveyed in 1855…
03.17.2009
30 Years of BENCHMARKS
Since our society’s founding on October 30, 1959 infrequent newsletters were sent to the members, sometimes many months and even years apart. BENCHMARKS…
03.17.2009
The Arkansas Colony Grant
New Mexicans are not astounded by large land ownership and most of them like the vast untrammeled areas of open space made possible…
03.17.2009
The Spanish Grants of Arizona
Permanent Hispanic settlement in today’s Arizona did not take place until 1752, when a presidio was established at Tubac, only to be relocated…
