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 499
... wagons of the train were long , heavy and narrow , with wheels higher at the rear than at the front , and double hoods of Osnabrück linen stretched over arched bows . From a little distance and seen from the end , such a wagon seemed to ...
... wagons of the train were long , heavy and narrow , with wheels higher at the rear than at the front , and double hoods of Osnabrück linen stretched over arched bows . From a little distance and seen from the end , such a wagon seemed to ...
Page 501
... wagon and team in flames . " Under a favoring wind a train once passed safely through a fire ; but at night the wind changed , and the fire caught up with the wagons the next day . At the end of the first lap of the journey , as night ...
... wagon and team in flames . " Under a favoring wind a train once passed safely through a fire ; but at night the wind changed , and the fire caught up with the wagons the next day . At the end of the first lap of the journey , as night ...
Page 869
... wagons crossed the Rio Grande at the old ford of France Way , where the town of Guerrero now stood ; or at Eagle Pass , Presidio del Norte , or El Paso . Texas freighters used huge blue wagons with beds twenty - four feet long and four ...
... wagons crossed the Rio Grande at the old ford of France Way , where the town of Guerrero now stood ; or at Eagle Pass , Presidio del Norte , or El Paso . Texas freighters used huge blue wagons with beds twenty - four feet long and four ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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