Mexico and Its Religion / With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places VisitedRobert Anderson Wilson
Mexico and Its Religion / With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
Robert Anderson Wilson
Travel
Book language: English
339 pages
Mexico and Its Religion is a 19th-century travelogue by Robert A. Wilson. It blends accounts of his travels in Mexico during the early 1850s with historical notes on the places he visited and observations on religion and customs. It offers a window into mid-19th-century Mexican life and travel.
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SANTA ANNA SANTA ANNA. MEXICO AND ITS RELIGION; WITH INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN THAT COUNTRY DURING PARTS OF THE YEARS 1851-52-53-54, AND HISTORICAL NOTICES OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH PLACES VISITED. By ROBERT A. WILSON.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1855. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York. TO THE AMERICAN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES, THE FOLLOWING PAGES Are Respectfully Dedicated. PREFACE. The custom of mingling together historical events with the incidents of travel, of amusement with instruction, is rather a Spanish than American practice; and in adopting it, I must crave the indulgence of those of my readers who read only for instruction, as well as of those who read only for amusement.