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tii «g£ i i/* in uivpibe readily presented.And tl$|h the ‘onquering ot thewilderness by the first pioneers; tin* trade with ox carts from Laredo to Monterrey; tins coming of the railway and the transformation of a mezquite studded cattle pasture into fertilefarms, as well as the evoltPion of thehard-riding vaquero into a farmerwho no longer depended upon thescanty rain but \vatf«p bis mops from the Rio Grande, that river which has been famed in song and story.It would not cost so much to pro duee a pageant like that, and the best of it is that it all belongs to us. We need not reach out to New England for her Plymouth Rock; we need not go to Europe for our tales of chivalry; mounted, armor-clad kniglits passes 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 history dates farther back than that of Poston 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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