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 873
... range , camping wherever night overtakes them , catching with the lasso upon the prairies every young animal found whose mother bears their employer's brand . " It was " legal and a universal practice to capture any unmarked and ...
... range , camping wherever night overtakes them , catching with the lasso upon the prairies every young animal found whose mother bears their employer's brand . " It was " legal and a universal practice to capture any unmarked and ...
Page 898
... range from above . " In the morning they emerged from this mile - long canyon and entered a sinuous course through ... Range , running fifty miles from north to south . Ten miles of it lay in the United States ; forty miles of it , sawed ...
... range from above . " In the morning they emerged from this mile - long canyon and entered a sinuous course through ... Range , running fifty miles from north to south . Ten miles of it lay in the United States ; forty miles of it , sawed ...
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... Range , 35 , 136 , 321 , 328 Sangre de Cristo Mountains , 312 Sangre de Cristo Range , 498 , 581 , 887 Santa Ana , New Mexico , 318 Santa Anna , Antonio López de . See López de Santa Anna Santa Barbara , Mexico , 154 , 199 , 216 Santa ...
... Range , 35 , 136 , 321 , 328 Sangre de Cristo Mountains , 312 Sangre de Cristo Range , 498 , 581 , 887 Santa Ana , New Mexico , 318 Santa Anna , Antonio López de . See López de Santa Anna Santa Barbara , Mexico , 154 , 199 , 216 Santa ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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American animals Armijo arms army arrived artillery attack bank battle brought Brownsville Camargo camp Canales canyon Captain Carranza cattle cavalry Chihuahua citizens Coahuila Colonel colony command Congress cow boy crossed desert Díaz Eagle Pass El Paso enemy fight fire forces Fort Bliss Fort Craig frontier garrison gave Governor Gulf heard horse hundred Indians infantry killed knew land later Magoffin Manuel Armijo Matamoros ment Mexican Mexico City Mier miles Monterrey mountains moved nation night officers once Pancho Villa party Paso passed plain plaza Point Isabel prairies President Presidio prisoners pueblos Republic rifle river road Saltillo San Antonio Santa Anna Santa Fe seemed sent settlers Socorro soldiers soon Spanish Stephen Austin Taos Taylor territory Texans Texas thousand tion took town traders troops turned United upriver Veracruz Villa volunteers wagons wrote