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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... stream , they set to work hacking out a cottonwood canoe . In natural forest paths they looked for the little musky mounds that marked beaver trails . They searched currents for the drift of gnawed beaver sticks . Every such sign took ...
... stream , they set to work hacking out a cottonwood canoe . In natural forest paths they looked for the little musky mounds that marked beaver trails . They searched currents for the drift of gnawed beaver sticks . Every such sign took ...
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... stream . " But there was no flowing subterranean passage ; only an exhaus- tion of surface flow , and a lowered level of groundwater unable to seep above to make channel water . Here and there in such an interrupted passage the people ...
... stream . " But there was no flowing subterranean passage ; only an exhaus- tion of surface flow , and a lowered level of groundwater unable to seep above to make channel water . Here and there in such an interrupted passage the people ...
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... stream , the first tributary of the river below the Conchos . At this point they had come one hundred miles by water , though in air line they were only fifty miles from Presidio . They camped on the Mexican side , and regarded a mile ...
... stream , the first tributary of the river below the Conchos . At this point they had come one hundred miles by water , though in air line they were only fifty miles from Presidio . They camped on the Mexican side , and regarded a mile ...
Contents
A Colony for Mexico | 453 |
A Wild Strain | 460 |
The Twin Sisters | 469 |
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