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 548
... lived , and church properties were maintained , wholly on what their parishioners could contribute . This was in most places miser- ably little . Few parishes had resident pastors . Most were vacant , to be visited two or three times a ...
... lived , and church properties were maintained , wholly on what their parishioners could contribute . This was in most places miser- ably little . Few parishes had resident pastors . Most were vacant , to be visited two or three times a ...
Page 552
... lived without regular lawful occupations were to be arrested . It was not long until rumors , spread by the enemies of Colonel Pérez , enraged humorless citizens with stories of how a tax was to be laid upon every barnyard fowl , and ...
... lived without regular lawful occupations were to be arrested . It was not long until rumors , spread by the enemies of Colonel Pérez , enraged humorless citizens with stories of how a tax was to be laid upon every barnyard fowl , and ...
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... lived in tents , except for two officers who built and paid for a little house themselves . Everyone else suffered by heat in summer and cold in winter . Noting that a bastioned field fort had been built of stone and earth on the high ...
... lived in tents , except for two officers who built and paid for a little house themselves . Everyone else suffered by heat in summer and cold in winter . Noting that a bastioned field fort had been built of stone and earth on the high ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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