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 483
... lands for future benefit , I am decidedly of opinion that one league of land well situated in Texas will be worth more than ten on the Rio Grande- The Sun and moon are not more dissimilar than the two countries . . . . " He had really ...
... lands for future benefit , I am decidedly of opinion that one league of land well situated in Texas will be worth more than ten on the Rio Grande- The Sun and moon are not more dissimilar than the two countries . . . . " He had really ...
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Paul Horgan. and all the pleasures of his society ” —all for land , new land . If this was a desire deep in the individual , it must reappear as an element in the national character ; and it was seen by some as a driving force behind the ...
Paul Horgan. and all the pleasures of his society ” —all for land , new land . If this was a desire deep in the individual , it must reappear as an element in the national character ; and it was seen by some as a driving force behind the ...
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... land of hard secrets , the best kept of which was the location of water . Its few rivers ran in abruptly cut trenches walled with pink or yellow or slate blue limestone , and could not be seen except from their very brinks . In every ...
... land of hard secrets , the best kept of which was the location of water . Its few rivers ran in abruptly cut trenches walled with pink or yellow or slate blue limestone , and could not be seen except from their very brinks . In every ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
Copyright | |
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