Wonderland The Story Of Ancient And Modern New Mexico PDF Download

Excerpt from Wonderland the Story of Ancient and Modern New Mexico In the year 1848, the United States acquired by conquest and purchase, a vast territory lying along our western and southwestern border, a portion of which was called New Mexico, and extended from the one hundred and third meridian of west longitude to the Colorado River, and from thirty-one degrees and twenty minutes to thirty-seven degrees of north latitude; comprising one hundred and fifty million acres of land; an area nearly three times as large as the State of Kansas, four times greater than Missouri, or five times greater than the State of Illinois. It is supposed to be rich in mineral and pastoral resources, but its remoteness from civilization and the perils involved in reaching it, formed for years an effectual barrier to its exploration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.