A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical AppendixDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 Excerpt from A Journey Through Texas; Or a Saddle-Trip on the South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix At the same time, I do not desire to engage in it, as I hardly need assure you, in a spirit at all inconsistent with a desirable friendship. Rather, in explaining the significance which, in my own mind, attaches to my narrative of facts, relative to the question upon which we have the misfortune to be divided in judgment, I shall hope 'to lessen. Instead of aggravating, the causes of our difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... Mexican town on the Rio Grande ; four hundred United States troops listening to the shrieks of fleeing women , and looking on in indo- lence . This has passed without rebuke ; apparently with entire public and offi- cial indifference ...
... Mexican Rights , 265 ; An Irish Colonist ; A Horse - jockey Silenced , 266 ; The Soil ; A Stam- pede , 267 ; San Antonio River District ; Mexican Plantations , 270 . CHAPTER V. A TRIP OVER THE FRONTIER . ; Frontier Trains , 273 ; A ...
... Mexican Colonial Towns , 340 ; Irrigation ; The Chaparral Desert in Mexico , 341 ; Old Fields of Mexico , 342 ; A Mexican Town ; San Fernando , 343 ; The People , 314 ; Indians , 345 ; Lodgings : A Mexican Interior , 346 ; Tortillas ; A ...
... Mexican Border , 441 ; Mustangs and Mustangers , 443 ; Catching Wild Horses - Their Unconquer- able Viciousness , 444 ; The Soil and Climate , 445 ; Meteorological Pheno- mena and Conjectures ; Northwestern Texas , 446 ; The Staked ...
... Mexican journey , and to that I grimly applied myself with success . Our passengers were some twenty in num- ber , mostly good - natured people from the neighboring country , fraternizing loudly with the officers of the boat , over ...