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notes Chapter 1 1. James W. Abert, Gúadal P’a: The Journal of Lieutenant J. W. Abert from Bent’s Fort to St. Louis in 1845 (Canyon, Tex.: Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1941), 51–52. 2. Ibid., 52. 3. Frederick W. Rathjen, The Texas Panhandle Frontier (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973), 113. 4. Ibid. 5. Abert, Gúadal P’a, 54. 6. William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1993), 251. 7. Rathjen, The Texas Panhandle Frontier, 112–113. 8. LeRoy R. Hafen, Broken Hand: The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick: Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent (Denver: Old West Publishing Co., 1973), 219. 9. Ibid., 318–19. 10. Ibid., 1. 11. Goetzman, Exploration and Empire, 251. 12. Rathjen, The Texas Panhandle Frontier, 121. 13. Ibid., 121–122. 14. Gerald Schultz, (Professor of Geology, West Texas A&M University), in discussion with the authors,October 17, 2006. 15. Jeffrey A. Schneider, “Environmental Investigations: The Great Underground Sponge: Ogallala,” Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, http://www.oswego.edu/~schneidr.CH300/envvinv/EnvInv12.html (accessed June 2, 2008). 16. Abert, Gúadal P’a, 53–54. 17. Ibid., 54–55. 18. Ibid., 58. { 242 } noTEs To PagEs 16–34 Chapter 2 1. George G. Shumard, The Geology of Western Texas (Austin: State Printing Office, 1886), 95. 2. Ibid. 3. Frederick R. Gehlbach, Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: A Natural History of the U.S.—Mexican Borderlands (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981), 107–108. 4. W. Frank Blair, Vertebrates of the United States (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1957), 491, 522, and 527. 5. Gehlbach, Mountain Islands Desert Seas, 106–108. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid., 98. 8. Frederick and Nancy Gehlbach, in discussion with the authors, December 6, 2007. 9. Douglas H. Chadwick, “Crown of the Continent,” National Geographic, September 2007, 69. Chapter 3 1. Samuel W. Geiser, Naturalists of the Frontier (Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 1948), 191. 2. Ibid., 192. 3. Clinton P. Hartman, “Charles Wright: Botanizer of the Boundary, Part I,” Password 37, no. 2 (1992): 60–63. 4. Charles Wright, “Field notes of Charles Wright for 1849 and 1851–52” (typewritten transcription with commentary by Ivan M. Johnston, Library of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, February 1940), 33–34. 5. Samuel W. Geiser, “Charles Wright’s 1849 Botanical Collecting-trip from San Antonio to El Paso; with Type-localities for New Species,” reprinted from Field & Laboratory 4, no. 1 (1935): 32. 6. Samuel Gibbs French, Senate Executive Document, A Report in Relation to the Route over which the Government Train moved from San Antonio to El Paso del Norte, Made in Pursuance to Order . . . dated May 30, 1849, 31st Cong., 1st sess., 1850, vol. 14, no. 64, p. 48. 7. Geiser, “Charles Wright’s 1849 Botanical Collecting-trip,” 30–32. { 243 } noTEs To PagEs 40–60 8. Charles Wright to Asa Gray, December 1849, Wright-Gray correspondence , Library of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid. 12. Sally Wasowski with Andy Wasowski, Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region (Houston: Gulf Publishing Company, 1991), 249. Chapter 4 1. Louis Agassiz Fuertes to his family, 29 May 1901, Louis Agassiz Fuertes Papers, #2662. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. 2. Quotations, unless otherwise noted, are exact transcriptions (including ampersands, abbreviations, etc.) from letters that Fuertes wrote to his family between 29 May and 9 June, 1901. Louis Agassiz Fuertes Papers, #2662. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. 3. David J. Schmidley, Texas Natural History: A Century of Change (Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, 2002), 270–271. 4. Ibid., 25. 5. Ibid., 8. 6. Ibid., 25. 7. Ibid., 7. 8. Harry C. Oberholser, The Bird Life of Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974), xix. 9. Robert McCracken Peck, A Celebration of Birds: The Life and Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes (New York: Walker and Company, 1982), 162–164. 10. Ibid., 161. Chapter 5 1. Robert T. Hill, “Running the Cañons of the Rio Grande, Part 1,” The Dallas Morning News, August 5, 1934. 2. Nancy Alexander, Father of Texas Geology: Robert T. Hill (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1976), 116. 3. Ibid., 123. { 244 } noTEs To PagEs 60–76 4. Ibid. 5. Robert T. Hill, “Running the Cañons of the Rio Grande,” The Century Magazine, January, 1901...