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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=266 height=144 style='width:2.7708in;height:1.5in' src="cid:image004.jpg@01D276F6.7E372020" align=left hspace=12 alt="RMMS_Logo_Color_832121_600pix_3_inches_wide copy.tif" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Elephant",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Rocky Mountain Map Society is a non-profit organization <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>dedicated to the study and appreciation of maps and other items <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>of cartographic interest. The Society was formed in 1991 and is <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>based in Denver, Colorado.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Elephant",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#C45911'>March 21, 2017 – Professor John Kessell: <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#C45911'>“Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#C45911'>from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Fremont”<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:311.35pt'><td width=261 valign=top style='width:195.65pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:311.35pt'><p class=MsoNormal><img width=313 height=259 style='width:3.2604in;height:2.6979in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D276F5.FE910E30"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'>5:30 PM at Denver Public Library <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'>Fifth Floor, Gates Room<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'>This program is free and open to the community.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=308 valign=top style='width:231.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:311.35pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=331 style='width:248.25pt'><tr style='height:304.95pt'><td width=29 valign=top style='width:21.75pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:304.95pt'></td><td width=296 valign=top style='width:222.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:304.95pt'><p class=MsoNormal>A Professor Emeritus of History at University of New Mexico, John Kessell founded the Vargas Project, something of a Southwestern Adams Papers to publish the Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico’s refounding father in the late seventeenth century (6 vols., UNM Press, 1989-2002). His most recent book is <i>Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico</i> (U. of Oklahoma Press, 2013). He lives near Durango within sight of a Miera campsite dating from August 1776.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>“</span>When first asked what influence Miera's famed 1778 map of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition had on subsequent cartography of the region, I hadn't a clue. A great deal, it turns out, resulting especially from Miera's faulty hydrography. The likes of Humboldt, Pike, and Tanner, all contributed to the myth: just get yourself to the Great Salt Lake, choose your river, and paddle to California. Such a delusion!”<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>