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Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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OASES IN FIRST JOURNEY ACROSS THE COLORADO DESERT—Wells dugby the Aboriginal American Indians where first white men quenched their thirstwhile travelling over parched sands near San Jacinta Mountains—Photograph bypermission of copyright by C. C. Pierce and Company, Los Angeles, California On the following day, December iS, 1775, Anza prepared to resume hismarch and begin the passage of the cordillera. Three oxen died from coldand exhaustion in the morning, and five more, unable to move with the band,were killed and the beef dried and salted though hardly eatable by reasonof its smell, color, and taste. At 1 130 in the afternoon, the expedition moved tip the broad canon ofthe San Felipe River and travelled three and a half leagues. The nextday they made four leagues to San Gregorio, in Coyote Caiion. The waterof the wells was so scanty that the cattle received very little, while the coldwas so intense that each day many of cattle and caballerias, exhausted bythe hardships of the jo

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