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 549
... never - ending menace of the roving Indian ; the other was that strain in the colonial character that had never recovered from the dream of Quivira , FORTUNES OF NEW MEXICO 549 Foreigners.
... never - ending menace of the roving Indian ; the other was that strain in the colonial character that had never recovered from the dream of Quivira , FORTUNES OF NEW MEXICO 549 Foreigners.
Page 550
... never separated - he was able to leave his employer and take on shepherds of his own whose work would yield him the owner's percentage in his turn . Sheep provided milk , meat and wool to the family ; and lambs that were sold for the ...
... never separated - he was able to leave his employer and take on shepherds of his own whose work would yield him the owner's percentage in his turn . Sheep provided milk , meat and wool to the family ; and lambs that were sold for the ...
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Paul Horgan. Those of earth - born passion , simple , never constrain'd , never obedient , Those of inland America , " sang Walt Whitman . The people , he said , were " ungrammatical , untidy , and their sins gaunt and ill - bred , " and ...
Paul Horgan. Those of earth - born passion , simple , never constrain'd , never obedient , Those of inland America , " sang Walt Whitman . The people , he said , were " ungrammatical , untidy , and their sins gaunt and ill - bred , " and ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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