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Gadsden purchase,

The name applied to the land bought from Mexico in 1853, because its transfer was negotiated by Gen. James Gadsden, who was United States minister to Mexico when the purchase was made. It includes a strip of land extending from Rio Grande del Norte, near El Paso, westward about 500 miles to the Colorado and the border of Lower California, and from the Gila River to the border fixed by the treaty. Its greatest breadth is 120 miles, and its area 45,535 square miles.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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