I was a map collector. In 2012 I donated the collection to The School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. Every once in a while they ask me to come down and talk about the maps and I’m always willing to do it. On November 1, 2019 they are reopening the derivative exhibition “Imagined Regions” and they have asked me to speak. I’m going to talk about maps and collecting.For starters I’m going to try to answer these questions:
- Why did you collect maps?
- Where did you buy them?
- How did you know that they were authentic?
- Did you really curate a traveling exhibit of the maps?
- Why did you donate them to the School of Transborder Studies?
- What are you collecting now?
Details to follow.
Neglecting to seize Baja while we were throttling Mexico in 1848 was a sadly missed opportunity to conserve oppressed sea turtles, and is beyond reason.
Norman
During the negotiations for the Gadsden Purchase in 1853 Mexico offered to sell Baja and Sonora to the USA for an additional 10 million dollars. Santa Ana needed the money to pay his army. Our negotiators turned it down. They thought it would be impossible to get through the Senate because of the slavery issue.