Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico

Robert E C Davis

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Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico

Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico

Robert E C Davis

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About the Author

Robert E. C. Davis spent twenty-five years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps and retired in 2008 as the colonel of an artillery regiment. He holds a BS in geography from the University of Utah, an MA in national security and strategic studies from the College of Naval Warfare, an MS in geographic information systems technology from the University of Arizona, and a graduate certificate in remote sensing and earth observation from Penn State University. He is certified as a mapping scientist by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

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"This is an extraordinary history integrated with a scientific treatise on geospatial relationships employed as a tool of military intelligence and operational and tactical command. . . . It is an exemplar of geographic modeling and is a prime example of the historian's craft."--Thomas T. Smith, author of Under the Double Eagle: Citizen Employees of the U.S. Army on the Texas Frontier, 1846-1899

Publishing Information

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Pub date: 2025-11-18
Length: 240 pages

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