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 818
... Fort Fillmore , where matters were far better conducted . On his way upriver to Fort Craig he and his command were overtaken by a blizzard , and made camp hurriedly . They built a great ring of fires within their circle of parked wagons ...
... Fort Fillmore , where matters were far better conducted . On his way upriver to Fort Craig he and his command were overtaken by a blizzard , and made camp hurriedly . They built a great ring of fires within their circle of parked wagons ...
Page 824
... Fort Craig . He improved the defenses of Albuquerque , Santa Fe and Fort Union . And as Sibley began to move across Texas toward Fort Bliss , Canby asked Governor Gilpin of Colorado for a re - enforcement of volunteers . Their first ...
... Fort Craig . He improved the defenses of Albuquerque , Santa Fe and Fort Union . And as Sibley began to move across Texas toward Fort Bliss , Canby asked Governor Gilpin of Colorado for a re - enforcement of volunteers . Their first ...
Page 827
... Fort Union , where the territory's last defenses stood . Colonel Canby , still immobilized downriver at Fort Craig , had sent orders that a supreme effort must be made to hold Fort Union . If it went , the whole territory went , and ...
... Fort Union , where the territory's last defenses stood . Colonel Canby , still immobilized downriver at Fort Craig , had sent orders that a supreme effort must be made to hold Fort Union . If it went , the whole territory went , and ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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