2. Author : John Tebbel and Ramon E. Ruiz

3. Publisher : Zenith Books and Doubleday & Company Copyright 1969

5. The setting of this story covers an immense number of years of conquering and colonization in the Southwest areas we now know as California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. It begins in the early 15 and 1600's, in a time when many important Spaniards, such as Juan Bautista de Anza (in 1775 he led the longest overland migration of a colony in North American history before Oregon), were moving into the Southwest in search of gold, silver, bread, and jobs. It also talks about the Indians, who were already living in the area we now know as Mexico, that did not get along real well with the Spaniards(Anglos) when they came in to invade their land. The two main Indian tribes of that time were the Mayas(a peaceful people who were interested in science, invented a calendar to grow maize, and were later believed to be wiped out by a great natural catastrophe), and the Aztecs(a powerful bloodthi

7. I believe the theme of this story to be that although Mexico and the United States had very different histories, they have grown together. They share such a long border that they need to maintain a peaceful border, otherwise many problems can occur. Mexico and U.S. rely on each other for many important imports and exports. In many cases, other than a political one, the line that runs between Brownsville, Texas and San Diego, California is considered an invisible one. Many cross it often, as in some areas it is only a barbed wire fence or a river easily crossed. Also there is said to be about as many "Mexican-Americans" in the Southwest as there are in the Mexican states just south of the border, which makes it seem, in many ways, as if it is all one region.

8. The main characters were more groups than anything: the Spaniards, the Mexicans, the Indians, and the Anglos, however, there were some important ones' within the groups to be mentioned. These are: Cortez(the leader of the Spaniards when fighting the Aztecs), Moctezuma(the leader of the Aztecs), Padre Miguel Hidalgo, Jose Maria Morelos, and D. Augustin de Iturbide(leaders of Mexico in the

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Approximate Word count = 779
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)