Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to the presentHoughton Mifflin, 1978 |
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Page 43
... told him , but at the end of three days the Indians would be resurrected in the flesh to live forever . They would enjoy the earth which was right- fully theirs . Once again there would be plenty of game , fish , and piñon nuts . Best ...
... told him , but at the end of three days the Indians would be resurrected in the flesh to live forever . They would enjoy the earth which was right- fully theirs . Once again there would be plenty of game , fish , and piñon nuts . Best ...
Page 308
... told me to go to the bank and take all my money and get gold notes . They were yellowbacks that said on the back : Redeemable in demand at the U.S. Treasury for gold in bars . I got $ 10,000 in gold . I said , " What the hell am I going ...
... told me to go to the bank and take all my money and get gold notes . They were yellowbacks that said on the back : Redeemable in demand at the U.S. Treasury for gold in bars . I got $ 10,000 in gold . I said , " What the hell am I going ...
Page 489
... told one lie which in its consequences was more momentous even than Lyndon Johnson's celebrated deception con- cerning the attack on a United States warship in the Gulf of Tonkin . Polk told the American people that Mexican soldiers had ...
... told one lie which in its consequences was more momentous even than Lyndon Johnson's celebrated deception con- cerning the attack on a United States warship in the Gulf of Tonkin . Polk told the American people that Mexican soldiers had ...
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Thunder in D Alexander Brown | 42 |
the West 5 Day of the Cattleman | 50 |
馨 7 The New Industrial Order | 84 |
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