Item Detail
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32675
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English
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The Search for the Fabulous in the Settlement of the Southwest
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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1956
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24
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah State Historical Society
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1-19
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"These stories of the fabulous were an integral feature of the age of discovery of America and the conquest of its native peoples. The stories might be legion, but nature was perverse, especially in the southwest, and tolerated only rumors of kingdoms, not the substance. In spite of the niggardliness of the soil, however, and the lowly stature of the people who inhabited it, Spain planted her culture, conquered and civilized its people, and held the land till another age. When the Mexican War came and she had to give up the vast northern fringe of her territory, stretching from Texas through New Mexico and Utah to California, others were ready to make a reality of Spanish dreams. In the ancient Copala and Teguayo, the Mormon pioneers did so; in California, the discovery of gold drew thousands to that land of the wonderful; in New Mexico and Texas, other pioneers built on a similar scale. Throughout this region the great discoveries in our own day of gold, silver, copper, oil, uranium, and other riches proved that Spanish dreams had, after all, been founded on fact." [Author]
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https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/volume_24_1956/s/95993