Autograph letter, signed, from Edward Otho Cresap Ord to Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War of the United States. Ord describes the reaction in California and Mexico to the Gadsden Purchase, including American filibusters in Mexican territory and the negative perception of the sale by Mexican citizens, particularly clergy, who were concerned that their land would be taken and distributed to American settlers. Ord also describes a topographical survey of the newly acquired territory and the possibility of constructing a railroad in the new territory
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Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) was an engineer and officer in the United States Army stationed in California and New Mexico Territory, circa 1839-1854. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico., Arizona., New Mexico., Mexico, United States., and United States
Subject (Name):
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. and Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Filibusters, Gadsden Purchase, Land grants, Railroads, Surveying, and Foreign relations
Itinerario de la espedicion de San Carlos a Monclova el viejo... hecho por el Colonelo Emilio
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1
Abstract:
Itinerary of the expedition of Col. Emilio Langberg, military inspector of Chihuahua, along the Rio Bravo border in 1851. His account describes the regions and histories of Chihuahua and Coahuila, the customs of the local Indians, and their relations with
Subject (Geographic):
Chihuahua (Mexico : State), Coahuila (Mexico : State), Mexico., and United States --Boundaries --Mexico
A collage with a wash drawing depicting native people of Mexico on a hillside with the sky above, mounted in the center of which is an engraving of a view of a walled city surrounded by a river, the arrangement giving the impression that the two drawn figures are looking out over a valley at the settlement in the distance below them. A couple prominent in the left foreground, stand in front of a tree; the man faces the viewer and wears a feathered headdress and loin cloth; the spear in his right hand rests on his right shoulder; the shield in his left hand is propped up against the ground. The woman with her back to the viewer, wears a sleeveless top, a skirt, and sandals; her long hair falls past her waist; food items are visible within the basket she carries in the crook of her right arm. Two other figures work in the clearing below
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Place and date of production inferred from associated engravings mounted in the same extra-illustrated volume, many of which were published in London in the eighteenth century., and Mounted on page 134 in volume 6 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Itinerario de la espedicion de San Carlos a Monclova el viejo... hecho por el Colonelo Emilio
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Itinerary of the expedition of Col. Emilio Langberg, military inspector of Chihuahua, along the Rio Bravo border in 1851. His account describes the regions and histories of Chihuahua and Coahuila, the customs of the local Indians, and their relations with
Subject (Geographic):
Chihuahua (Mexico : State), Coahuila (Mexico : State), Mexico., and United States --Boundaries --Mexico
Itinerario de la espedicion de San Carlos a Monclova el viejo... hecho por el Colonelo Emilio
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Itinerary of the expedition of Col. Emilio Langberg, military inspector of Chihuahua, along the Rio Bravo border in 1851. His account describes the regions and histories of Chihuahua and Coahuila, the customs of the local Indians, and their relations with
Subject (Geographic):
Chihuahua (Mexico : State), Coahuila (Mexico : State), Mexico., and United States --Boundaries --Mexico
