Journal of the Louisiana Purchase 2002 Baseline Expedition edited by John P. Gill
The wife and I went to her aunt and uncles house in eastern Arkansas yesterday. Her uncle was reading this book. I thought it was interesting because he is not a surveyor, and is not in a related field. I really didn't have time to look at the book, but it appears to be about retracing the baseline from the intial point of the 5th Principle Meridian. I spent a few minutes online looking and found very little information on the book.
I was going to send you to Addall.com, but I couldn't find it there. Paden's link is better than anything I found.
You know who John Gill is (or was) right?
"He's dead, Jim."
paden cash, post: 364394, member: 20 wrote: maybe here?
I should have specified that I want to buy the book.
Here's a story about it:
http://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/?p=7036
I can find no other mentions of the book though. John P. Gill apparently is a lawyer in Little Rock; maybe try calling him?
There is also this:
It looks like it may have been published by the State of Arkansas.
Tommy,
The new Arkansas Handbook for Surveyors has a good bit of information on the baseline. You could also probably contact Dick Elgin, who wrote the manual for ASPS, and a similar manual for Missouri.
I am planning a day trip to see the monument at the state park.
Jimmy
To ask the obvious, did you ask your wife's uncle?
I suspect [USER=34]@Dan B. Robison[/USER] would know
Tommy Young, post: 364398, member: 703 wrote: I should have specified that I want to buy the book.
I didn't realize the link was not for a purchase location. (Imagine that, a link to something on the internet that DOESN'T want a credit card number!)
Good luck with your quest.
Robert Hill, post: 364407, member: 378 wrote: To ask the obvious, did you ask your wife's uncle?
I suspect [USER=34]@Dan B. Robison[/USER] would know
Ha, that was the first question I asked.
He got it at an estate sale.
When I'm looking for rare books like this, I put a "want" on ABEbooks.com. I've managed to find a few over the years. If you ask a used bookseller, there may be "insider" forums/want lists where they could put out a search for it. That's likely to be pretty expensive though.
Tommy,
Call R. C. Payne
at (870) 295-4040
Mississippi River State Park
$9.99 plus tax
Tell her, Dan Robison sent you...
DDSM:beer:
Here are a few snap shots from the October 17, 2015 bicentennial celebration.
Initial Point of the 5th P.M.
DDSM:beer:
Anybody in those pictures whose names we'd recognize?
Bill,
The fellow on the left in the first picture, the compass man, is Hinton Murders, LSIT. The other fellows are Arkansas State Park employees acting like Surveyors.
The PDF file 20151017 has a couple of BeerLeggers whose names you might recognize.
DDSM:beer:
Excellent. I form mental images of the people who post, from whatever subliminal clues my brain picks up, and they are usually very wrong. Dan isn't so different from my image but Steve is.
What would really be cool would be to get a couple more stones and plaques made up and then go out there and pincushion the hell out of it, lol.
