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 693
... later to inspire Doniphan to meet it by march- ing down the New Mexican Rio Grande to El Paso and from there to Chihuahua City . Naval forces in the Pacific were to capture the coast of California , as General Kearny went west from New ...
... later to inspire Doniphan to meet it by march- ing down the New Mexican Rio Grande to El Paso and from there to Chihuahua City . Naval forces in the Pacific were to capture the coast of California , as General Kearny went west from New ...
Page 726
... later observed . It was a gesture of defense that would yet prove convenient for the invaders who had bought him off . Then in a great sweat to shift responsibility from his own shoulders to those who later could be vilified as traitors ...
... later observed . It was a gesture of defense that would yet prove convenient for the invaders who had bought him off . Then in a great sweat to shift responsibility from his own shoulders to those who later could be vilified as traitors ...
Page 786
... later emigrants , it became the town of Eagle Pass , named for the great bird who for several years lived on the river , and was seen to make his way slowly from one bank to another always by the same airy course . Overland parties from ...
... later emigrants , it became the town of Eagle Pass , named for the great bird who for several years lived on the river , and was seen to make his way slowly from one bank to another always by the same airy course . Overland parties from ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
Copyright | |
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