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Borders: Created, Contested and Imagined: Credits & Resources

An on-line exhibit based on Borders: Created, Contested and Imagined, a map exhibition in Zimmerman Library on display in 2024.

Selected Resources

Athearn, Robert G. Rebel of the Rockies: A History of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. Yale Western Americana Series 2. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.

Barber, Peter. The Map Book. New York: Walker & Company: Levenger Press, 2006.

Cavendish, Thomas, and David Beers Quinn. The Last voyage of Thomas Cavendish, 1591-1592: the autograph manuscript of his own account of the voyage written shortly before his death, from the collection of Paul Mellon. Studies in the history of discoveries. Chicago London: University of Chicago press, 1975.

Cohen, Paul E. Mapping the West: America’s Westward Movement 1524-1890. New York: Rizzoli, 2002.

Consentino, Delia. “Picturing American Cities in the Twentieth Century: Emily Edward’s Maps of San Antonio and Mexico City.” Imago Mundi 65, no. 2 (2013): 288–99.

Dear, Michael. “Monuments, Manifest Destiny, and Mexico.” Prologue Magazine, Summer 2005.  https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/summer/mexico.

Ebright, Malcolm, and Rick Hendricks. Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.

Eidenbach, Peter L. Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps, 1550-1941. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012.

Emory, William H. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. The Fred H. and Ella Mae Moore Texas History Reprint Series. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1987.

Emory, William H. United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Washington D.C.: C. Wendell, 1857.

Frost, Richard H. The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians : The Impact of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880-1930. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016.

Gjevre, John A. Chili Line. Espanola, NM: Rio Grande Sun Press, 1969.

Hester, Nathalie. “Geographies of Belonging: Italian Travel Writing and Italian Identity in the Age of Early European Tourism.” Annali d’Italianistica 212003 (n.d.): 287–300.

International Boundary Commission, Engraved by R.F. Bartle & Co. Boundary between the United States and Mexico by the International Boundary Survey under the Convention of July 29th 1882, Revived February 18th 1889. New York: J. Polhemus, 1901.

Koepp, Donna P., ed. Exploration and Mapping of the American West: Selected Essays. Occasional Paper / Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association, no. 1. Chicago: Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association : Speculum Orbis Press, 1986.

Library of Congress. “The Transcontinental Railroad.” LOC Digital Collections: Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900. https://www.loc.gov/collections/railroad-maps-1828-to-1900/articles-and-essays/history-of-railroads-and-maps/the-transcontinental-railroad/.

Myrick, David F. New Mexico’s Railroads: A Historical Survey. Rev. ed., [Second paperback print.]. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.

Primary Sources Sets: Mormon Migration. “An 1846 Map by Augustus Mitchell ‘of Texas, Oregon and California, with Regions Adjoining.’” Digital Public Library of America. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/mormon-migration/sources/1592.

Rebert, Paula. La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857. 1st ed. Austin (Tex.): University of Texas Press, 2001.

Reinhartz, Dennis, and Gerald D. Saxon, eds. Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Schulten, Susan. A History of America in 100 Maps. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Siddons, Louise. “Seeing the Four Sacred Mountains: Mapping, Landscape and Navajo Sovereignty.” European Journal of American Culture 39, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 63–81.

Taylor, Michael. “Mapping the Mythical.” Https://libguides.unm.edu/blog/mapping-the-mythical. Mapping the Mythical (blog), February 2, 2017.

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Exhibit Credits

Curated by Marcy Botwick, with contributions and assistance from Monica Dorame, Jennifer Eggleston, Cheyenne Stradinger, Katherine Massoth, and Portia Vescio. Thanks to everyone for the cross departmental effort. This display exemplifies the University Libraries' team commitment to fostering dynamic, engaged scholarship and an enriching, learning environment.