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Digital Image: 1881 Wheeler Geological Map of Northern New Mexico, Southern Colorado
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Title
Parts of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico - Atlas Sheet No. 70 (A).
1881 (dated) 18 x 20 in (45.72 x 50.8 cm) 1 : 253440
1881 (dated) 18 x 20 in (45.72 x 50.8 cm) 1 : 253440
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Cartographer S
George Montague Wheeler (October 9, 1842 - May 3, 1905) was a surveyor and cartographer best known for leading the U.S. Government's geographical surveys west of the 100th meridian, better known as the Wheeler Survey. Born in Massachusetts, Wheeler attended West Point and graduated near the top of his class in 1866. He joined the Army Corps of Engineers and was dispatched to the American West, before being chosen to lead the ambitious survey that came to be associated with his name, which lasted from 1872 to 1879. More by this mapmaker...
John James Stevenson (October 10, 1841 - August 10, 1924), better known as J.J. Stevenson, was a geologist and academic who played an important role in developing the field of geology in the United States. Stevenson was born in New York and attended New York University and then became a professor of chemistry at West Virginia University before returning to his alma mater to teach geology. Throughout the 1870s and early 1880s, he spent time with the still-evolving U.S. Geological Survey as well as the Pennsylvania Geological Survey. Later, in 1898, he served as president of the Geological Society of America. A prolific scholar, Stevenson published dozens of works over his long career. Learn More...
Source
Wheeler, G. M. et al, Topographical Atlas Projected to Illustrate United States Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian of Longitude..., (New York: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) 1876 - 1881).
References
Rumsey 2738.078. OCLC 712646757, 36844335.