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 478
... rock , tinted plaster , and rocky streets laid out at right angles to a square central plaza dominated by a church . They were towns that rose from the river landscape like parts of it . At San Felipe de Austin on the Brazos , Sánchez ...
... rock , tinted plaster , and rocky streets laid out at right angles to a square central plaza dominated by a church . They were towns that rose from the river landscape like parts of it . At San Felipe de Austin on the Brazos , Sánchez ...
Page 897
... rock . The Rio Grande with its shallow flow did not turn aside , or dam itself into a system of lakes , but for ages wore its way as an antecedent river through the escarpments as they rose , some to a height of almost a mile above its ...
... rock . The Rio Grande with its shallow flow did not turn aside , or dam itself into a system of lakes , but for ages wore its way as an antecedent river through the escarpments as they rose , some to a height of almost a mile above its ...
Page 900
... rock to remain suspended high up the cliff . As the mountain ended sharply , so the desert began sharply , reaching far inland , and going with the river for the next forty miles . The very rock of Santa Elena seen from the desert ...
... rock to remain suspended high up the cliff . As the mountain ended sharply , so the desert began sharply , reaching far inland , and going with the river for the next forty miles . The very rock of Santa Elena seen from the desert ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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