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 504
... summer that kept the rivers at flood , they might have to spend nearly a year on the round trip , staying the winter ... summer had taken seventy days . The return trip , with light wagons and increased knowledge , took forty . With ...
... summer that kept the rivers at flood , they might have to spend nearly a year on the round trip , staying the winter ... summer had taken seventy days . The return trip , with light wagons and increased knowledge , took forty . With ...
Page 808
... summers were so hot that the Inspector General recom- mended for the men , instead of their issue tunics of thickly ... summer and cold in winter . Noting that a bastioned field fort had been built of stone and earth on the high river ...
... summers were so hot that the Inspector General recom- mended for the men , instead of their issue tunics of thickly ... summer and cold in winter . Noting that a bastioned field fort had been built of stone and earth on the high river ...
Page 888
... summer in the San Juan Mountains , but without finding gold . Before another winter could trap them they returned ... summers pack trains bringing ore came from over the divide by way of Stony Pass which was over twelve thousand feet ...
... summer in the San Juan Mountains , but without finding gold . Before another winter could trap them they returned ... summers pack trains bringing ore came from over the divide by way of Stony Pass which was over twelve thousand feet ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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