Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundaries
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Establishing Boundary Line Between Colorado and New Mexico and Oklahoma
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundaries
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Establishing Boundary Line Between Colorado and New Mexico and Oklahoma ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Boundary Line Between Colorado and Oklahoma and New Mexico. Message from the President of the United States, Returning, Without Approval, Senate Joint Resolution Number 78, "Establishing the Boundary Line Between the States of Colorado and Oklahoma and the Territory of New Mexico."
Author: State and National Boundaries of the United States
Author: Gary Alden SmithPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786461187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
With the exception of oceans, boundaries are artificial, man-made divisions of geography that many times make little sense and sometimes no sense at all. For example, why does the northern boundary of Minnesota protrude into Canada? Why does West Virginia have two panhandles? Why do Pennsylvania and Delaware have a common boundary that is a circle segment? Why do the boundaries of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah consist entirely of lines of latitude and longitude? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in this book, which explains why and how state boundaries are placed where they are. It begins with an introduction that provides general information about boundary placement, colonial boundaries, formation of territories, surveying and Supreme Court rulings. The 50 states are divided into ten regions (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Upper South, Lower South, Great Lakes, North Central, South Central, Rocky Mountain, West, and Noncontiguous). The text for each state begins with an overview of that state's boundaries that becomes more specific as its different boundaries are considered. The appendices include interesting facts about each state, citizen and state nicknames, and dates territories were created and states entered the Union. Richly illustrated with 138 maps.
Creating the American West
Author: Derek R. EverettPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806146133
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Boundaries—lines imposed on the landscape—shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular. Drawing lines to create states in the trans-Mississippi West, he points out, imposed a specific form of political organization that made the West truly American. Everett examines how settlers lobbied for boundaries and how politicians imposed them. He examines the origins of boundary-making in the United States from the colonial era through the Louisiana Purchase. Case studies then explore the ethnic, sectional, political, and economic angles of boundaries. Everett first examines the boundaries between Arkansas and its neighboring Native cultures, and the pseudo war between Missouri and Iowa. He then traces the lines splitting the Oregon Country and the states of California and Nevada, and considers the ethnic and political consequences of the boundary between New Mexico and Colorado. He explains the evolution of the line splitting the Dakotas, and concludes with a discussion of ways in which state boundaries can contribute toward new interpretations of borderlands history. A major theme in the history of state boundaries is the question of whether to use geometric or geographic lines—in other words, lines corresponding to parallels and meridians or those fashioned by natural features. With the distribution of western land, Everett shows, geography gave way to geometry and transformed the West. The end of boundary-making in the late nineteenth century is not the end of the story, however. These lines continue to complicate a host of issues including water rights, taxes, political representation, and immigration. Creating the American West shows how the past continues to shape the present.
Boundaries of the United States and the Several States
Author: Franklin K. Van ZandtPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
With miscellaneous geographic information concerning areas, altitudes, and geographic centers.
Boundaries, Areas, Geographic Centers and Altitudes of the United States and Their Several States
Author: Edward Morehouse DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Land Service Bulletin
Author: United States. General Land OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Boundaries, Areas, Geographic Centers, and Altitudes of the United States and the Several States
Author: Edward Morehouse DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description