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

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Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) is remembered these days not only as colonial New Mexico’s preeminent religious artist, but additionally as the cartographer who drew probably the most most necessary early maps of the American West. His “Plano Geographico” of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin, revised by his hand in 1778, influenced other mapmakers for nearly a century. This book places the person and the map in historical context, reminding readers of the long-lasting significance of Miera y Pacheco. Later Spanish cartographers, in addition to Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Captain Zebulon Bernard Law Montgomery Pike, and Henry Schenck Tanner, projected or expanded upon the Santa Fe cartographer’s imagery. By so doing, they perpetuated Miera y Pacheco’s most notable hydrographic misinterpretations. Not until almost seventy years after Miera did John Charles Frémont take the sector and see for himself whither the waters ran and whither they didn’t.

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