NMLP P-035572 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09
Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua
John Russell Bartlett · D. Appleton and Company (New York) · 1854
Bartlett headed the U.S. Boundary Commission that surveyed the line set by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo across the New Mexico and Arizona borderlands in 1850-53, work whose disputed boundary helped prompt the Gadsden Purchase, and Jenkins's Basic Texas Books calls the narrative 'the most scholarly and scientific description of Southwest Texas of its era.'
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035572 for "Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua" by John Russell Bartlett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035572, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).