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ciscan friars; the frequent fights be !urf*n Spanish and Indians of the North, as well as between the Anglo* Saxons and the dreaded Comanrhes; the march of the Mexican troops toattack the Alamo, the dragoons of Scott and the volunteer riflemen ofTaylor; the final victory of the Texansand their admission into the Union; all these farm pictures which couldbe readily presented.And then the conquering of the wilderness by the first pioneers; the trade with ox earls from Laredo to Monterrey; the coming of the railway and the transformation of a mezquite-st added cattle pasture into fertile farms, as well as the evolution of the hard«riding vaquoi o into a fanrmrwho no longer depended upon the scanty rain but watered his crops from the It^plJraride. that river whichhas been famed in song and story !t would not com so much to pro duee a pageant like that, and the bent of it is that it all belongs to us. Weneed not reach out to New Englandfor her Plymouth Rock; we need not go to Europe for our tales of chivalry; mounted, armor-clad knig 1 its passed through what are now our streets in their search for the Seven Cities of Cibola, and no greater romance was ever known than that of the men who herded the longhorns from Laredo to the Montana line. Laredo's iiintory dates farther back than that of Boston or Jamestown, and we should feel a pride in it.
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Laredo Weekly Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 15, 1920
Page 10
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