Page 3 - Early Naturalists of the Black Range

The Contents
“Early Naturalists of the Black Range” is a survey of the people who added to our understanding of the natural history of the Black Range of Southwestern New Mexico. I do not claim that it is comprehensive or definitive. There is much which is not included, individuals and concepts. As such, and assuming that there may be a second edition, please send me your thoughts about errors of commission or omission.
Many of the individuals who are listed in this work went on to accomplish much more, this survey does not dwell on their
work or accomplishments after they left the Black Range, we will leave that to their biographers.
Entries are made in rough chronological order, generally at about the start date of the individual’s work in the Black Range. Their activities in the Black Range may have spanned decades or weeks and it may have been disjunct, separated by years of work elsewhere. Except for Emory, naturalists are listed only once - at the beginning of their work here on a sky island (or is it a sky peninsula?) of the Southwest.
Bob Barnes, Hillsboro rabarnes@blackrange.org
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Approx. Year
Naturalist
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The Covers
2
The Contents
5
Early Naturalists of the Black Range
6
1100
The Mimbres
7
Edward Palmer & J. S. Newberry (Examples of Natural History Known to the Indigenous Peoples)
9
Early Spanish Explorations
9
1535
Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
9
1540
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
9
1562
Diego Gutierrez
10
1565
Francisco de Ibarra
10
1581
Francisco Sánchez
10
1581
Fray Agustín Rodríguez
10
1582
Antonio de Espejo
10
1590
Gaspar Castaño de Sosa
10
1598
Don Juan de Oñate
10
1650
Nicholas Sanson
10
1688
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli
11
1695
Father Eusebio Francisco Kino
11
1747
Juan M. Menchero
11
1758
Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco
12
Spanish Naturalists
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Approx. Year
Naturalist
13
1771
José Ramón de Urrutia y las Casas
13
1780
Juan Bautista de Anza
13
1780
Don Francisco Martínez
13
1800
Don José Manuel Carrasco
13
1804
Don Francisco Manuel de Elguea
15
1804
The Humboldt Map
15
What Else Was Happening in 1804?
15
The Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804
17
1807
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
18
1820
Edwin James
18
1820
Thomas Say
18
1823
José María Narváez
19
1825
James Ohio Pattie
20
1825
Henry S. Tanner Map of 1825
22
1825
Rowland Willard
22
Fur Trappers
23
1844
Josiah Gregg
26
1846
Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus
28
1846
William Hemsley Emory
39
1846
Philip St. George Cooke
40
List of the Different Names Used for the Road
2