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 686
... soon vanished beyond it . General Taylor called a staff council . What went on in it leaked out afterward , and the troops knew that seven out of ten commanders had voted to desist from battle , preferring to entrench where they were ...
... soon vanished beyond it . General Taylor called a staff council . What went on in it leaked out afterward , and the troops knew that seven out of ten commanders had voted to desist from battle , preferring to entrench where they were ...
Page 702
... soon presented another picture of an American frontier in its first , most awkward age ; but here superimposed on an existing civilization . Wherever they went in great numbers , the Americans re - enacted the frontier experience . Out ...
... soon presented another picture of an American frontier in its first , most awkward age ; but here superimposed on an existing civilization . Wherever they went in great numbers , the Americans re - enacted the frontier experience . Out ...
Page 885
... Soon , like them , he would lose his nomadic , free and rough form of life before the westward sweep of machine technics by which Americans made their lives physically more easy - and socially less independent and self - reliant . In ...
... Soon , like them , he would lose his nomadic , free and rough form of life before the westward sweep of machine technics by which Americans made their lives physically more easy - and socially less independent and self - reliant . In ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
Copyright | |
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