- Gadsden Purchase: Odd Land Deal
Includes a biography of James Gadsden and background on the annexation of the territory containing portions of southern New Mexico and Arizona.
www.progress.org/gads.htm
- Gadsden Purchase Treaty: December 30, 1853
Full text of the treaty courtesy of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/mexico/mx1853.htm
- Library of Congress: Gadsden Purchase
Signed in Mexico City, the treaty settled the dispute over the exact location of the Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas.
www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/gadsden_1
- Infoplease: Gadsden Purchase
Strip of land purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1853.
www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0819976.html
- Gadsden Purchase Clarified U.S. Boundaries
Article from the El Paso's local history project, Borderlands.
www.epcc.edu/ftp/Homes/monicaw/borderlands/18_gadsden.htm
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