Places the Western Flyer passed through on Ricketts and Steinbeck's journey to the Sea of Cortez.

A dataset providing both the place names used in the book and the modern Mexican equivalents in Spanish. Several of the book place names are a bit peculiar, but the localities match up well with the current Spanish names.

Usage

places

Format

An sf tibble with one row per stop.

location_espanol

The current place name, in Spanish.

location_english

The place name used in the book.

collect

Logical. 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 point geometry – not perfectly accurate, and often slightly offshore.

Examples

data(places)

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