Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont

Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713 1785) is remembered today not only as colonial New Mexico (TM)s preeminent religious artist, but also as the cartographer who drew some of the most important early maps of the American West. His oePlano Geographico � of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin, revised by his hand in 1778, influenced other mapmakers for almost a century. This book places the man and the map in historical context, reminding readers of the enduring significance of Miera y Pacheco. Later Spanish cartographers, as well as Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Captain Zebulon Montgomery Pike, and Henry Schenck Tanner, projected or expanded upon the Santa Fe cartographer (TM)s imagery. By so doing, they perpetuated Miera y Pacheco (TM)s most notable hydrographic misinterpretations. Not until almost seventy years after Miera did John Charles Fr (c)mont take the field and see for himself whither the waters ran and whither they didn (TM)t.

Author: John L. Kessell
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 04/15/2017
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.90h x 9.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780826358233

About the Author
Kessell, John L.: - John L. Kessell, a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, is the author or editor of many books, including Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain to New Mexico, 1675â 1706 (UNM Press).