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 468
... faces - all but the mountain man . In his face there glared a starved animation . His heels made muffled thunder on the ground . The Mexican dances were set pieces , with evolutions and patterns . He did not heed them . He threw himself ...
... faces - all but the mountain man . In his face there glared a starved animation . His heels made muffled thunder on the ground . The Mexican dances were set pieces , with evolutions and patterns . He did not heed them . He threw himself ...
Page 859
... face to face with the realities of their northern boundary . For nearly thirty years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , and forty after the Texan revolution , they continued to view the lands divided by the river as one grand unit ...
... face to face with the realities of their northern boundary . For nearly thirty years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , and forty after the Texan revolution , they continued to view the lands divided by the river as one grand unit ...
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... face to face with the first of the three mightiest obstacles of the Big Bend . It was the Santa Elena Range , running fifty miles from north to south . Ten miles of it lay in the United States ; forty miles of it , sawed off by the ...
... face to face with the first of the three mightiest obstacles of the Big Bend . It was the Santa Elena Range , running fifty miles from north to south . Ten miles of it lay in the United States ; forty miles of it , sawed off by the ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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