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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Page 460
... lake ; gashed canyon and rocky room- like penetralia in the stupendous temples of the high wilderness . Along hidden watercourses and in little cupped lakes lived and worked the family of a small creature destined to be the first cause ...
... lake ; gashed canyon and rocky room- like penetralia in the stupendous temples of the high wilderness . Along hidden watercourses and in little cupped lakes lived and worked the family of a small creature destined to be the first cause ...
Page 823
... Lake City , the ports of California , all of Arizona and New Mexico , and even - either by con- quest or purchase - Chihuahua , Sonora and Baja California . Such a huge acquisition would give the Confederacy a transcontinental scope ...
... Lake City , the ports of California , all of Arizona and New Mexico , and even - either by con- quest or purchase - Chihuahua , Sonora and Baja California . Such a huge acquisition would give the Confederacy a transcontinental scope ...
Page 860
... lakes from which Mexicans of both sides of the river had taken salt since 1863. They took it free from what they saw as a resource of nature open to all , and they hauled it in cartloads to the Rio Grande about ninety miles away to sell ...
... lakes from which Mexicans of both sides of the river had taken salt since 1863. They took it free from what they saw as a resource of nature open to all , and they hauled it in cartloads to the Rio Grande about ninety miles away to sell ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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