Great River: Mexico and the United StatesA distinguished historian examines the development of the region and surveys the amalgamation of the aboriginal Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American civilizations. |
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... Indians to deprive the trains of grass for their animals , so that the Army had to haul extra feed in wagons . An Indian fighter said that in twenty years of raiding in New Mexico and Arizona the Apaches cost settlers over fifty million ...
... Indians to deprive the trains of grass for their animals , so that the Army had to haul extra feed in wagons . An Indian fighter said that in twenty years of raiding in New Mexico and Arizona the Apaches cost settlers over fifty million ...
Page 848
... Indians about , once whistled to keep up his spirits , and a friend hearing him remarked that " there was no tune to his music , " and did not blame him . In the American river towns where Indians struck there was bitter feeling toward ...
... Indians about , once whistled to keep up his spirits , and a friend hearing him remarked that " there was no tune to his music , " and did not blame him . In the American river towns where Indians struck there was bitter feeling toward ...
Page 853
... Indians , the Indians , becoming used to the value of money , were only induced to arrange for more captives . It would take two decades for the forcible pacification of the Indians to be successful . In the same period , an ...
... Indians , the Indians , becoming used to the value of money , were only induced to arrange for more captives . It would take two decades for the forcible pacification of the Indians to be successful . In the same period , an ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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