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 879
... cow boy of his fellows in his domesticated old age , " -the circumstances of an unfenced world . " From their unfencedness came their main character- istics . Solitude was put upon them by their chosen environment , which thus modified ...
... cow boy of his fellows in his domesticated old age , " -the circumstances of an unfenced world . " From their unfencedness came their main character- istics . Solitude was put upon them by their chosen environment , which thus modified ...
Page 881
... cow boy , who pun- ished those who had betrayed him . " I'll go , " he threatened , to the Rio Grande , And get me a job with a cow boy band . " He did not mean a band of musicians , for not until the next century would the cow boy's ...
... cow boy , who pun- ished those who had betrayed him . " I'll go , " he threatened , to the Rio Grande , And get me a job with a cow boy band . " He did not mean a band of musicians , for not until the next century would the cow boy's ...
Page 884
... cow boy could make his explosive way , to be catered to by " men who live a soulless , aimless life , " and women who had " fallen low , alas ! how low . . . . . miserable beings . " Among the conventions of the cow boy's town manners ...
... cow boy could make his explosive way , to be catered to by " men who live a soulless , aimless life , " and women who had " fallen low , alas ! how low . . . . . miserable beings . " Among the conventions of the cow boy's town manners ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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