"The mining community in northern New Spain: the Parral mining district." (Sauer)

b. 30 June 1913, Enid, Oklahoma. m., Phyllis Devereaux (dec.)

A.B. University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1938.

Louisiana State University (since 1948) Boyd Professor of Geography (Emeritus 1982).

Cultural geographer, Smithsonian Institution, Mexico City Office 1946-47; Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Spring 1966; UCLA, Spring 1968, Univ. of Arizona, Fall 1972, Spring 1976.

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 1955; Assoc. Amer. Geogr. Citation for Meritorious Contribution to Geography 1964; LSU Distinguished Faculty Fellow 1965; Boyd Professorship 1970; Award for Outstanding Contribution to Geography, Assoc. Amer. Geogr. 1973.

"Cultural Geography of the Modern Tarascan Area." Smithsonian Institution, Instltute of Social Anthropology, Publ. No. 7. Washington, D.C. 77 pp., 1948.

"The Mining Community in Northern New Spain: the Parral mining district." Ibero-Americana, 30, 147 pp., 1949.

"Colonial placer mining in Colombia." Louisiana State Univ. Studies, Social Science Ser., 2. 159 pp., 1952. Spanish translation, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 1973.

"The Pacific lowlands of Colombia." Louisiana State Univ. Studies, Social Science Ser., 8. 278 pp., 1957.

(Editor) Handbook of Middle American Indians, 1. (Natural Environment and Early Cultures). Austin: Univ. Texas Press, 570 pp., 1964.

Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples. (with John P. Augelli) Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. 482 pp., 1966. 2nd ed., 1976.

"The Tabasco Lowlands of Southeastern Mexico." (with N.P. Psuty and G.G. Thom) Louisiana State Univ. Studies, Coastal Studies Series, 27. 193 pp. (Also issued as Technical Report 70, Coastal Studies Institute, Louisiana State Univ.), 1969. Spanish translation, Gobierno del Estado de Tabasco, Villahermosa, 1976.

(Editor, with W.G. Haag) "Ecology of the Pleistocene." Geoscience and Man, 13, 76 pp., 1976.

"Carl Sauer's Fieldwork in Latin America." Dellplain Latin American Studies, 3, 165 pp. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1979.

"Andean Reflections: Letters from Carl 0. Sauer While on a South American Trip Under a Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation." Dellplain Latin American Studies, 11. 139 pp. Boulder: Westview Press, 1982.

"The Topia Road: a trans-Sierran trail of colonial Mexico." (with James J. Parsons) Geogr. Review, 31:406-413, 1941.

"The municipal archive of Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico." Handbook of Latin American Studies: 1940. Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 523-529, 1941.

"The present distribution of Tarascan speech." El Occidente de Mexico, Cuarta Reunion de Mesa Redonda sobre Problemas Antropologicos de Mexico y Centro America, Mexico, pp. 192-194, 1948.

"Las Chinampas de Mexico." (with Pedro Armillas) Cuadernos Americanos, pp. 165-182, marzo-abril, 1950.

"Folk-mining in Colombia." Economic Geography, 28:323-330, 1952.

"The term 'Bayou' in the United States: a study in the geography of place names." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 44:63-74, 1954.

"Mangrove swamps of the Pacific coast of Colombia." Annals, Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 46:98-121, 1956.

"Ridge or 'era' agriculture in the Colombia Andes." Actas del XXXIII Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, 1:279-282, 1959.

"The mining economy of Honduras during the colonial period." Actas del XXXIII Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, 2:767-777, 1959.

"Aboriginal sea navigation between Middle and South America." American Anthropologist, 63:133-135, 1961.

"The geography of Colombia." In The Caribbean: Contemporary Colombia. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, pp. 3-21, 1962.

"Surface configuration and associated geology of Middle America." Handbook of Middle American Indians, 1:33-83, 1964

"The natural regions of Middle America." Handbook of Middle American Indians, 1:84-121, 1964.

"El uso del suelo en el desarrollo de las llanuras de Tabasco." IGU, Regional Conference on Latin America, 2:386-397, 1966.

"The natural vegetation of the Tabascan lowlands, Mexico." Revista Geográfica, 64:108-122, 1966.

"Population densities and agricultural practices in pre-Columbian Mexico, with emphasis on semi-terracing." Verhandlungen des XXXVIII Internationalen Amerikanistenkongress, 2:361-369. Stuttgart, Munchen, 1970.

"The relaciones geograficas of Mexico and Central America, 1740-1792." Handbook of Middle American Indians, 12(1):396-449, 1972.

"The flat-roofed rural dwelling in Mexico: origins and dispersals." Geoscience and Man, vol. 4. School of Geoscience, Louisiana State Univ., 1974.

"Conservation of coastal marine environments." Revista de Biología Tropical, 24 (supl. 1):187-209, 1976.

"Tidal salt-marsh and mangal formations of Middle and South America." In Wet Coastal Ecosystems, 1. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., Amsterdam, pp. 193-213, 1977.

"Recent developments in cattle raising and the beef export trade in the Middle American region." Actes du XLIIe Congrès International des Américanistes, vol. 1:391-402, Paris, 1978

"A Berkeley perspective on the study of Latin American geography in the United States and Canada." In Studying Latin America: Essays in Honor of Preston E. James. Dellplain Latin American Studies, 4, pp. 135-175. Ann Arbor: University Microfilm International, 1980.

"The contribution of Carl Sauer to Latin American geography." Geographic Research on Latin America: Benchmark 1980. Proceedings of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, vol. 8:8-21, 1981.

"Aboriginal and colonial geography of Latin America." In Latin America, An Introductory Survey (Brian W. Blouet and Olwyn M. Blouet, eds.), pp. 34-86. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1982.

See also: "Robert C. West Geographer," by W.V. Davidson and J.J. Parsons in Geoscience and Man, 21:1-8, 1980. (Historical Geography of Latin America: Papers in Honor of Robert C. West.)