A History of the American People
Improved Plough, labor equivalent of one horse in three is saved. By means of drills, two bushells of seeds will go as far as th ...
average of seventy-seven registrations. By the 1830s it had jumped to 544 annually, by the 1840s to 6,480 and in the 1850s over ...
Peddlers were important because continental America had to overcome the tyranny of distance- the paradox whereby sheer space nar ...
Many people, especially foreigners, were dismayed by their first contact with this vast and often terrifying river. Charles Dick ...
Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Arkansas. It was cash well spent-by 1852 the commerce on the Mississippi alone was worth $653 9 ...
him to run a twice-weekly stage through Preston, El Paso, and Yuma to the Pacific Coast, taking twenty-five days. The Russell, M ...
which to work out the grand experiment of Republican Government, under the auspices of the Anglo-Saxon race.' The actual term Ma ...
Galveston Island was a pirate base. Then an independent Mexican government, having thrown out the Spanish by force, took over an ...
acknowledging the independence of Texas. The fighting was thus over in seven weeks. Independent Texas proceeded quickly to hold ...
1,299,062). Clay, having been an expansionist all his life, refused, for reasons which are still mysterious, to back the annexat ...
The people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.' He said:The only way to treat John Bull is to lo ...
if on cue, the same evening, May 9, the Mexican army attacked a US unit on the American' side of the Rio Grande, killing eleven, ...
four battles in quick succession (Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey and Chapultepec) in August and September and entered Mex ...
feebleness of the Spanish (later the Mexican) hold on the area, and the desirability of securing San Francisco Bay, the most con ...
treacherous, vacillating, above all lazy, with the elderly females doing all the hard work. Thus, in a nomadic party of Ogillall ...
Twain masterwork, Roughing It, which has an exact description of all the mining processes then in use and the skulduggery, viole ...
revolutions of 1848-9, which caused scores of thousands to flee. Never before or since was immigration so high per capita of the ...
by galleries. (The spokes plan had already been used in the Maison de Force in Ghent, but that had no galleries.) This was typic ...
anticlericalism endemic, he was amazed to find a country where it was virtually unknown. He saw, for the first time, Christianit ...
The Americans certainly made tremendous, continuous, and heartbreakingly genuine efforts to become enlightened.' Even more than ...
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