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 463
... mountains he met his second greatest adversary in great numbers . This was the great grizzly bear , who was curious , fear- less and gifted with a massive ursine intelligence . With lumbering speed the grizzlies could travel forty miles ...
... mountains he met his second greatest adversary in great numbers . This was the great grizzly bear , who was curious , fear- less and gifted with a massive ursine intelligence . With lumbering speed the grizzlies could travel forty miles ...
Page 887
... mountains a party of prospectors entering Colorado saw on the horizon what one of the company said looked " like a thunder cloud . " What he saw were the Spanish Peaks in the Sangre de Cristo range . His party turned north and followed ...
... mountains a party of prospectors entering Colorado saw on the horizon what one of the company said looked " like a thunder cloud . " What he saw were the Spanish Peaks in the Sangre de Cristo range . His party turned north and followed ...
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... Mountains , 887-88 San Juan River , 302 , 344 , 568 , 711 Valley of , 776 San Lázaro , New Mexico , 313 San Lorenzo del Real , New Mexico , 329 , 348 San Luis Potosí , 769 San Luis Valley , Colorado , 403 , 812 , 888 , 889 San Marcos ...
... Mountains , 887-88 San Juan River , 302 , 344 , 568 , 711 Valley of , 776 San Lázaro , New Mexico , 313 San Lorenzo del Real , New Mexico , 329 , 348 San Luis Potosí , 769 San Luis Valley , Colorado , 403 , 812 , 888 , 889 San Marcos ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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