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 630
... seemed to enlighten the people even while giving them a thin authority in obscure affairs , which they could display with elegance . Among the most gratifying of these were phrenology and its offshoots , which seemed to provide a ...
... seemed to enlighten the people even while giving them a thin authority in obscure affairs , which they could display with elegance . Among the most gratifying of these were phrenology and its offshoots , which seemed to provide a ...
Page 688
... seemed to go against the enemy . The Mexican batteries , in turn , ceased to fire . Nerve seemed to ebb away from the Mexicans . No longer hearing their cannon , and pressed by the United States infantry , they went wild . There were ...
... seemed to go against the enemy . The Mexican batteries , in turn , ceased to fire . Nerve seemed to ebb away from the Mexicans . No longer hearing their cannon , and pressed by the United States infantry , they went wild . There were ...
Page 763
... seemed to melt away . Colonel Price again spoke of sending the artillery downriver to Doniphan . An officer observed , " The artillery are making ready to march . . . ; the clanking of the anvil is incessant ; caissons and gun carriages ...
... seemed to melt away . Colonel Price again spoke of sending the artillery downriver to Doniphan . An officer observed , " The artillery are making ready to march . . . ; the clanking of the anvil is incessant ; caissons and gun carriages ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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