Show OF i HE MEXICAN As the summer season approaches millions of Americans are planning holiday In this nation of square Miles there are fascinating and tat away places without number which may be Those who are fortunate enough this year to roll across the great plains and traverse the il divide and the mountains of the West will see areas as rich In history us-an to be found In the An excellent account of some of this history may be found In a new book entitled Story of the Mexican by Robert Selph Juat published by Henry Is one of the outstanding historians of our And he Is one of those writers who able to make the reader live Stoy of the Mexican involves the great It describes a phase of the birth of this nation as we know it the period when the destiny of the miles of wilderness between the Missouri and California became forever linked with under the Polk Henry's tale of the Mexican War brings to the reader In a new light many familiar Corpus on the Gulf of Mexico to San The occupation of Los Angeles was completed In the words of Commander Robert F. a combined force of sailors and riflemen this famous city of the the capital at the and took unmolested possession of the Government Story of the Mexican Is as stimulating ns the winds of the Western Above all It is a readable story of great and lasting achievements accomplished by an amazingly small number of men working and fighting under the moat difficult U breathes life Into famous landmarks and leaves a new appreciation with the reader of the curious twists and turns of fortune that produced the twentieth century United |