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Ch. 5: Southwest the Course

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Life was good, at Santa Fe. But no emigrant could dream too long in the comfortable shadow of the mission church above. There was a hard journey ahead—and thousands of others pressing on behind. The military guard had turned its mules out to graze; besides, it would go no farther than Dona Ana on the Rio Grande. So, as soon as practicable, the emigrants were on the trail again-southward down the Rio Grande—past the mines of Placer Mountain in the Zandias (below) with their hint of the golden goal.
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