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Title: Young folks' history of Mexico
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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connect them with the Aztecs or the Toltecs, butthey have no system of written characters or hieroglyphs.Their legends have been passed down by word of mouthalone, and are hence valueless as affording even materialfor history. Great pains have been taken to obtain theirsecret traditions as preserved by the old men of the nationof the Zu?iis, and extravagant efforts have been used todraw public attention to them of late; but without anybeneficial result to the student of history. Towards the close of the sixteenth century another Span-ish captain reconquered that region, and the people wereeventually enslaved and compelled to labor in the mines.Nearly a hundred years later, in 1680, they rebelled andafter much brave fighting drove the Spaniards from thecountry. Thirteen years afterward they were again enslaved,and remained victims of Spanish oppression for one hun-dred and thirty years, until Mexico gained her independ-ence, in 1821. These Indians had a tradition that a new race of men
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The Conquest of New Mexico. 347 would come from the East to deliver them from the bond-age of the Spaniards and Mexicans, and this was happilyverified in 1846, when their territory, New Mexico, fell intothe hands of United States soldiers. Returning to the capital of Mexico, we shall find thateverything continued to prosper; lands were distributed topoor and meritorious Spaniards, and mines long known tothe ancient Mexicans were opened and successfully worked.In the years 1541 and 1542 were founded the cities ofGuadalajara and Valladolid. (A. D. 1545.) In this year occurred an eruption of thevolcano of Orizaba ; in the following year the rich mines ofZacatecas were discovered, and a terrible pestilence brokeout among the Indians, in which eighty thousand of themperished. In 1548 the first Bishop of Mexico, Zumarraga, died, thesame man who caused such a great loss to the world by thedestruction of Indian paintings. Desiring to remove fromthe sight of the Indians every vestige of their

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