| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Book Review

The Imaginary Line: A History of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey 1848–1857. By Joseph Richard Werne. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2007. xv + 255 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $34.95.)

United States-Mexico borderlands history has long needed a sorting out of the tangled details that make up our knowledge of the original boundary survey. Joseph Richard Werne's valuable study, The Imaginary Line, resolves the complex events of the survey and gives us a better understanding of its history. Most important, Werne is equally interested in both the U. S. and Mexican sides of the story and presents them as an integrated whole.

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