Category: Antepasados

In New Mexico as well as in Arizona the name of Will Tipton is inextricable linked to investigations of Spanish and Mexican land…

Two prominent southwestern historians wrote in an introduction of a jointly published book: "Americans are a people peculiarly addicted to celebrating anniversaries." I…

The following column I wrote under the title “In Retrospect” for the July 1998 issue of BENCHMARKS. I made some changes to reflect…

In the spacious, Southwestern style home he built in 1975 high on the steep west bank of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque I…

The accuracy to which today’s surveyors locate a point on the surface of the globe, and the speed with which precise measurements are…

“Bring me men to match my mountains…”    —Sam Foss Somebody once wrote that surveyors are remembered only by “the monuments which they…

"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…

"It is ordained that three grains of barley, dry and round, make an inch, twelve inches make a foot, three feet make an…

The quaint little town of Mesilla, or La Mesilla as it was called at the time of its founding, started its life in…

Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by oververification.      —James Gordon Bennett, Editor; New York Herald (1835-67)