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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... stream , they set to work hacking out a cottonwood canoe . In natural forest paths they looked for the little musky mounds that marked beaver trails . They searched currents for the drift of gnawed beaver sticks . Every such sign took ...
... stream , they set to work hacking out a cottonwood canoe . In natural forest paths they looked for the little musky mounds that marked beaver trails . They searched currents for the drift of gnawed beaver sticks . Every such sign took ...
Page 471
... stream of things in 1823 than when they were founded by the Count of Sierra Gorda in the 1750s . The river frontier was still thought of at times by the official mind as a place of exile . Far upstream , near Ojinaga , a penal colony ...
... stream of things in 1823 than when they were founded by the Count of Sierra Gorda in the 1750s . The river frontier was still thought of at times by the official mind as a place of exile . Far upstream , near Ojinaga , a penal colony ...
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... stream . " But there was no flowing subterranean passage ; only an exhaus- tion of surface flow , and a lowered level of groundwater unable to seep above to make channel water . Here and there in such an interrupted passage the people ...
... stream . " But there was no flowing subterranean passage ; only an exhaus- tion of surface flow , and a lowered level of groundwater unable to seep above to make channel water . Here and there in such an interrupted passage the people ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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American animals Armijo arms army arrived artillery bank battle brought Brownsville Camargo camp Canales canyon Captain Carranza cattle cavalry Chihuahua citizens Coahuila Colonel colony command cow boy crossed desert Díaz Doniphan Eagle Pass El Paso enemy fight fire forces Fort Bliss Fort Craig frontier garrison gave Governor Gulf heard horse hundred Indians infantry killed knew land later Magoffin Manuel Armijo Matamoros ment Mexican Mexico City Mier miles Monterrey mountains moved nation night officers once Pancho Villa party Paso plain Point Isabel prairies President Presidio prisoners pueblos Republic rifle river road Saltillo San Antonio Santa Anna Santa Fe seemed sent settlers Socorro soldiers soon Spanish Stephen Austin Taos Taylor territory Texans Texas thousand tion took town traders trail trappers troops turned United upriver Veracruz Villa volunteers wagons wrote York