Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . nthe last died the tloor wasnearly ankle-deep in blood, and ghastly corpses were heaped everywhere. By Every mau . ^ . 1,1- -111 -11 ^ ^\ t died fighting, order of Santa Ana the bodies were piled in heaps and burned. On the andnoneasked , . ,iiirr> -^ • -i- ^^1^ for quarter. monument to these immortal dead I exas writes an inscription so great thatit makes the heart stand still : Thermopylie had its messenger of defeat —the Alamo had none. Our partv scattered after this.
Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . nthe last died the tloor wasnearly ankle-deep in blood, and ghastly corpses were heaped everywhere. By Every mau . ^ . 1,1- -111 -11 ^ ^\ t died fighting, order of Santa Ana the bodies were piled in heaps and burned. On the andnoneasked , . ,iiirr> -^ • -i- ^^1^ for quarter. monument to these immortal dead I exas writes an inscription so great thatit makes the heart stand still : Thermopylie had its messenger of defeat —the Alamo had none. Our partv scattered after this. The Growler said he was going out toSan Pedro S[)rings to see the park and the menagerie, but I suspected thathe had in mind the excellences of the fann)us San Antonio beer, rather thanany desire to study zoology or seek communion with nature. The Colonel and the Girl started out to visit the great Cathetlral of San The cathedralFernando on the military pla/a. It was begun in 1734 and reconstructedin large part in 1S68. It contains the beautiful old altar rescued from theruins of the Mission of San .\ .MISSION DOOR.
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