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ix Acknowledgments L / I wish to express my thanks to many institutions for support and to individuals for help during the writing of this book. I appreciate the financial assistance of the professional development fund and the support of the administration at Bacone College. I received assistance from archivists and librarians at Gilcrease Museum, Beinecke Library at Yale University, Gray HerbariumatHarvardUniversity,OldColonyHistoricalSociety,Smithsonian Institution Archives, Ewell Sale Stewart Library and Archives at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and Bacone College. Thanks also to several anonymous readers who provided helpful criticisms about the manuscript; staff members of the University of New Mexico Press, past and present, such as Luther Wilson, W. Clark Whitehorn, Elise McHugh, and Felicia Cedillos; and copyeditor Lisa Williams. I wish to thank my son, Benjamin A. Lawson, a PhD candidate in history at the University of Iowa, for drawing the map of Berlandier’s travels. My wife, Linda Lawson, read a draft of the manuscript and provided helpful suggestions . This book is dedicated to her. ...

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