Messing with Maps: Miera y Pacheco, Dominguez, and Escalante edition

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🗺️ Messing with Maps 🧭

I’ve been fascinated by maps of all sorts for as long as I remember. Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco’s map, drawn following the 1776 Escalante-Dominguez expedition, has intrigued me for nearly as long. And the more I look at old maps of the region, the more interesting this one becomes, in part because it’s far more accurate, especi…