Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53
John Russell Bartlett's 1854 personal narrative of the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, published in New York and London by D. Appleton & Company, recounts his surveying travels through Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua from 1850 to 1853. The engravings, several signed by Samuel F. Baker, show desert ranges, mining valleys, irrigated camps and rock formations in plain, documentary views a designer could draw on for landscape references of the mid-nineteenth-century American southwest.
