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Senator John Bell (with the assent of Texas) in February 1850: New Mexico would get all Texas land north of the 34th parallel north (including today's Texas Panhandle), and the area to the south (including the southeastern part of today's New Mexico) would be divided at the Colorado River (Texas) into two slave states, balancing the admission ...
With a total area of 121,590 square miles (314,900 km 2), [1] New Mexico is the fifth-largest state, after Alaska, Texas, California, and Montana. Its eastern border lies along 103°W longitude with the state of Oklahoma , and 2.2 miles (3.5 kilometres) west of 103°W longitude with Texas (due to a 19th-century surveying error).
The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854.
Paul D. Berkowitz (2011), The Case of the Indian Trader, University of New Mexico Press ISBN 978-0-8263-4860-9, ISBN 978-0-8263-4859-3; Erica Cottam (2020), Hubbell Trading Post: Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest, University of Oklahoma Press ISBN 978-0806167527, OCLC 1151810810
Texhomex is a marker showing the tri-point of Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. The marker is off U.S. Highway 56 about two miles east on Texas State Line Road at the corner of Oklahoma State Line Road, and is at an elevation of 4712 feet. [1] There are no signs on Highway 56 in either direction.
After the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, Congress passed the Act of 1854 declaring the southern boundary of the Territory of New Mexico. This basically gave all Gadsden Purchase lands to New Mexico (which then included what is now Arizona), thereby creating a 12-mile-long Rio Grande boundary between the State of Texas and New Mexico Territory.
About 80,000 Mexicans inhabited California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas during the period 1845 to 1850, with far fewer in Nevada, southern and western Colorado, and Utah. [19] On 1 March 1845, U.S. President John Tyler signed legislation to authorize the United States to annex the Republic of Texas , effective on 29 December 1845.
Private and state-owned lands constitute the remaining 67 percent of the border, most of which is located in Texas. [ 1 ] In 1907, Theodore Roosevelt in a Presidential Proclamation (35 Stat. 2136) established the reservation in order to keep all public lands along the border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico "free from obstruction as a ...