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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=266 height=144 style='width:2.7708in;height:1.5in' src="cid:image002.jpg@01D34105.B95B32C0" 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;line-height:115%;font-family:Elephant'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The Rocky Mountain Map Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and appreciation of maps and other items of cartographic interest. The Society was formed in 1991 and is based in Denver, Colorado.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Elephant'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Elephant'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#C45911'>November 7, 2017 – Imre Demhardt: “The Rio Colorado of the West: 19<sup>th</sup> Century Exploration and Cartography”<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=253 valign=top style='width:189.9pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><img width=261 height=163 style='width:2.7187in;height:1.6979in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D3345B.6FDF9BB0" alt="Portrait Demhardt (in UTA's Special Collections)"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><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 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'>Imre Demhardt<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><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 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'>Tuesday at 5:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'>Denver Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'>5<sup>th</sup> Floor, Gates Room<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><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=385 valign=top style='width:288.9pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=373 style='width:279.55pt'><tr style='height:321.0pt'><td width=12 valign=top style='width:9.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:321.0pt'></td><td width=355 valign=top style='width:266.05pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:321.0pt'><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='line-height:115%'>This presentation introduces the explorers from the Spanish Entradas to Anglo pioneers like John Wesley Powell and their influence on nineteenth century (carto)graphic imaginations of the Rio Colorado of the West. Milestone representations of the river and its region do range from Alexander von Humboldt first ‘cleansed’ depiction of the area in 1811 to Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein’s pioneering relief shaded map of the Grand Canyon in 1861 and Clarence Dutton’s geological atlas in 1882. They all contributed to shape our mental map of the Rio Colorado as one of America’s iconic riverscapes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Imre is a historian and geographer whose research and publication focusses on post-enlightenment exploration and cartography, including but not limited to the Americas. Since 2008 he is the Garrett Chair in the History of Cartography and Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. 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