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Day 264 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
Sandburg writes: "On his walking trip from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains, Franz Rickaby met this survivor of the years of the War with Mexico."
In Native American Balladry Malcom Laws lists this as an American song, with no known relatives. (from The Traditional Ballad Index)
Day 264 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
Sandburg writes: "On his walking trip from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains, Franz Rickaby met this survivor of the years of the War with Mexico."
In Native American Balladry Malcom Laws lists this as an American song, with no known relatives. (from The Traditional Ballad Index)
