(Articles by Jerry Penry)

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The Line Between Sandstone & Quartzite

Unintentional Double Monumentation

Lewis and Clark's Tower Butte

Monuments of Sand

Death of a Deputy Surveyor

Mapping the Missouri

First Guide Meridian East

Testimony or Trickery

Court Ordered Corners

State Surveys of the Great Depression

The Making of a Better Monument
The Harrison Marker Company

Rocky Mountain High
Finding the Western End of the 6th PM Base Line

NGS Celebrates 200th Anniversary

Denver's USGS Mapping Center

Message in a Bottle

Woodward's Ice Bar

$250 Fine or Imprisonment for Disturbing This Mark

End of the Line
Monumenting the Northern Terminus of the Sixth Principal Meridian

Monument Memorials

The Father of Government Mapmaking
Henry Gannett

Illegal Fences of the Great Plains

The Receding Railroads

Survey or No Survey: The Unlicensed Land Surveyor