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 501
... plain the road and frequent the settlements . If they staged few battles against riding Indians , it was because the trains made a great show of force and circumstance that discouraged attack . The wagons wracked their way down the ...
... plain the road and frequent the settlements . If they staged few battles against riding Indians , it was because the trains made a great show of force and circumstance that discouraged attack . The wagons wracked their way down the ...
Page 653
... plain . His benches , beautifully surfaced , remained as close as possible to their original parts of plank and branch . Such severity suggested not only that the maker was a plain man , for religious or other reasons unsympathetic ...
... plain . His benches , beautifully surfaced , remained as close as possible to their original parts of plank and branch . Such severity suggested not only that the maker was a plain man , for religious or other reasons unsympathetic ...
Page 678
... plain , " and they knew what they were hearing , and they pounded and hugged one another for joy , and sent up together a " simultaneous shout . . . that must have sounded in Matamoros more terribly than our severest cannonade . ” The ...
... plain , " and they knew what they were hearing , and they pounded and hugged one another for joy , and sent up together a " simultaneous shout . . . that must have sounded in Matamoros more terribly than our severest cannonade . ” The ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
Copyright | |
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