Perpetuating ”Prairie Passage“ peer mentoring protocols ...
John C. Fremont :: Great Plains Watershed Mapmaker
USMA West Point “Mindshifting” Community of Practice (CoP)
1843: Prestaging “Manifest Destiny” mapping myths
Adapting Reverend James Maury's tutoring lessons ...
Nov-1843: Fort Vancouver on Columbia River
Reframoing the “Great Basin” for extractive economics ...
1846: Oregon Trail Map by Charles Pruess
1844: Ralph Waldo Emerson “The Young American”
1845: Championing “manifest destiny” myths ...
1846-47: William H. Emory “Notes of a Military Reconnaissance”
Perceptions become reality ....
Facts vs. fabrication ... Reliability & Truth foster Respect & Trust?
1857-59: Boundary Surveys by Major Emory
1858: Dr. George Engelmann derivative work product (summary)
1853: Gadsden Purchase Surveys
1854: Political-Military drivers of topographical surveys ...
1849: ”System of Triangulation“ for land navigation
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1869: George Wheeler launchs USGS Quad System for surveys.
1878: US Geological Survey emerges