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 718
... young Francis Parkman with his notebook , and many others who looked past the Mississippi with the hungry American eye . One was a young midshipman bound for the Columbia River with dispatches , who in spite of his immediate destination ...
... young Francis Parkman with his notebook , and many others who looked past the Mississippi with the hungry American eye . One was a young midshipman bound for the Columbia River with dispatches , who in spite of his immediate destination ...
Page 866
... young in terms of their rightful growth of spirit and mind . The churches were almost all in ruins . An immense task faced the young bishop . He attacked it with a sort of grave passion , and for the rest of his life he was to see grow ...
... young in terms of their rightful growth of spirit and mind . The churches were almost all in ruins . An immense task faced the young bishop . He attacked it with a sort of grave passion , and for the rest of his life he was to see grow ...
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... young daughters had lost their lives at San Francisco in a fire that destroyed their quarters . Of all his family only his infant son survived . The young officer - young for a brigadier general - took leave to attend to matters that ...
... young daughters had lost their lives at San Francisco in a fire that destroyed their quarters . Of all his family only his infant son survived . The young officer - young for a brigadier general - took leave to attend to matters that ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
Copyright | |
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