> ...Van Valkenburg...
That is a good sounding survey name
Great Surveys of the American West
Me too Old Man.
It is sitting on my nightstand, after recently having been re-discovered on a bookshelf collecting dust for twenty plus years...
...great minds, right?
If we are talking about books with survey scene then you need to ad Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang". It has been ages since I read it but it included some diabolical surveying.
"The Land Surveyor's Daughter" poetry by Ellen Gilcrest.
I would love to have a copy someday to give my daughter, who is a writer.
Bob Hill found me (I think) a copy some years ago, but it was like a million dollars.
Ed Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang, as mentioned.... lots of surveying in it, but not a pro surveying book.
Tom
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The Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World's Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains, by Tony Rees. Good read about surveying the US/Canadian border.
Cheers,
Henry
TSPS has 3 books about the surveying in Texas.
One League to Each Wind
Three Dollars A Mile
Texas Was His Land, W. D. Twichell