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Now do elevation relief map.

Utah or Pah-Ute, or even Goshute, could work. I'd swap Rio Grande for New Mexico and New Mexico for Dinetah since you've got the Rio Grande boundary, but that's me. I started reading your TL today, nice job.

Beautiful map, but one question: were the Navajo or Apache moved to OTL Utah/Nevada? Because the Dinetah depicted here was the traditional lands of the Paiute, Ute, and Utah.

Very interesting, subscribed with much enthusiasm!

I tend to agree with this hypothesis. Domestication is a two-way street, it changed us as much as it changed them.

Yeah, I think that works better, pretty much guarantees a Navajo rep in Congress. Nice job.

You've got the Hopi Reservation and the western half of the Navajo Nation in the same district (21st) as Flagstaff and heavily GOG Kingman and Mojave County, but if it's 90% Navajo then it can't possibly be a safe R district. Something's off there. Respectfully, the Navajo, Apache, and Hopi...

Really digging this project, but oh boy that Arizona map. Yeesh. Did you take Native American reservations in account, like, at all?

Maybe the film industry sets up in Houston instead of Los Angeles, but that might require a pre-1900 POD, too.

Take care, BNC, looking forward to the TL's eventual return!

The Chiricahua took prisoners? Huh. This has been a good read, by the way.

Tropical Baja California, I love it.

Excellent update! The Apaches make it difficult but any possibility of a busy, southern route between CA & NM via the Gila River and Tucson in the cards? Oh, and a little nitpick: I'm not sure the Dominguez-Escalante expedition ever made it to California and their return route to New Mexico was...

I did not see that coming! Excellent work, jycee! That was not the sordid affair(s) I was thinking about. Of course, the history of Alta California reads like a Mexican soap opera much of the time. I was thinking of Governor Chico's mistresses and the adultery-turned-murder incident in Los...

Hm.. something from my own reading of Alta California history is ringing a bell. This will be intriguing. Please continue.

Excellent work all around on this TL. Looking forward to the election. Since it came up, I've been working on a Vinick wins WWTL, but it'll probably come after my TL that fleshes out the WW universe from Nixon to Bartlet (and I'm also hoping to explain the histories of Kumar and Kundu). I've...

The Imperial Valley is the best winter cropland in the United States and the Central Valley will demand Colorado River water eventually. Perhaps a port gets developed in the Delta, but almost 100 miles upstream? I really doubt there'll be enough water unless southern California does not grow...

The Colorado River was barely navigable for large ships and Yuma was about as far as they could get. In all likelihood, the Colorado River won't reach the ocean iTTL just as in OTL, so you can rule out Yuma as a port. Puerto Penasco can possibly be developed into a larger port, but I don't think...

Maybe, I think I heard about the Colorado River access thing from "How The States Got Their Shape."

I always thought it was to give Nevada access to the Colorado River. There was gold mining activity in the area, but it wasn't substantial compared to finds in Prescott, Arizona or Silverton, Colorado around the same time.