Places which the Western Flyer passed through on Ricketts and Steinbecks journey to the sea of Cortez.

A dataset with place names provided both following the text, and more modern Mexican place names in Spanish. Note that several of the book place names seem somewhat peculiar, but the localities seem well matched to the current names in spanish.

Usage

places

Format

sf/tibble/dataframe with two date columns.

location-espanol

A currently used place name in spanish.

location-english

The name of the location used in the book.

collect

Boolean. Whether the crew collected specimens there.

date_arrive

The date the Western flyer arrived (or passed the place).

date_depart

The date the Western flyer departed, or passed the place.

geometry

The geometry of the place, not 100% accurate, and often slightly off shore.

Examples

data(places)

library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
 geom_sf(data = places, aes(color = date_arrive)) +
 theme_minimal()