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050 00 $aF786$b.W44 2007
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100 1 $aWerne, Joseph Richard,$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87827448
245 14 $aThe imaginary line :$ba history of the United States and Mexican boundary survey, 1848-1857 /$cJoseph Richard Werne.
260 $aFort Worth, Tex. :$bTexas Christian University Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axv, 255 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-244) and index.
520 1 $a"In The Imaginary Line: A History of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1848-1857, Joseph Richard Werne sets out to explore this border and the men who drew it. Using a variety of sources, including manuscripts, government documents, contemporary accounts, and memoirs, he creates a map of his own, one that revises the common view of the U.S.-Mexican Commission as directed and funded almost entirely by the United States." "The diverse group of military and civilian surveyors, engineers, and politicians that composed the Joint Commission had to reconcile disparate personal interests and backgrounds, as well as different maps and equipment. Their efforts were of "epic quality" and represent the coinciding cooperation and conflict that describe border relations today. Werne's study describes their lives and work, their survival in the hostile environment, and their struggles with inadequate funding and government corruption, tying their stories into the approaching civil war in the United States, the rapidly lengthening transcontinental railroad, and political instability in Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xBoundaries$zMexico.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139917
651 0 $aMexico$xBoundaries$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084541
651 0 $aMexican-American Border Region$vSurveys.
650 0 $aSurveyors$zMexican-American Border Region$vBiography.
650 0 $aSurveyors$zUnited States$vBiography.
651 0 $aMexican-American Border Region$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aSouthwest, New$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125673
650 0 $aNatural history$zSouthwest, New.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108328
650 0 $aIndians of North America$zSouthwest, New$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aSouthwest, New$xHistory, Local.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006027539.html
852 00 $bglx$hF786$i.W44 2007