Mexicanpulque/mezcal, Californian missions/missiongrape, Texasstatehood/war, Indigenousdispossession and liquortrades despite laws, TaosLightning, trappers/overlandstages, Burton1860MormonbeerwineValleyTan. Important retrieval for diverse frontier distilling, crossborder markets and selective enforcement. Repeated mezcal=distilledpulque false simplification;1835Texasindependence and49th'longitude' chronological/geographicerrors. FortLaramie39506inoneday implausible probablyperiodtotal. BurtonLakeVictoria attribution suspect. Indigenous racialized claims rejected; colonial descriptions contextual not neutral. LDS practices historical/time-specific, not current generalization. No adulteration/unsafehistoricalrecipe instructions retained.
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Chapter 20 covers: Mexicanpulque/mezcal, Californian missions/missiongrape, Texasstatehood/war, Indigenousdispossession and liquortrades despite laws, TaosLightning, trappers/overlandstages, Burton1860MormonbeerwineValleyTan.
chap. 20, “West”
Chapter 20: West
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Chapter 20 covers: Mexicanpulque/mezcal, Californian missions/missiongrape, Texasstatehood/war, Indigenousdispossession and liquortrades despite laws, TaosLightning, trappers/overlandstages, Burton1860MormonbeerwineValleyTan.
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chap. 20, “West”. Chapter-level topic map of a 2008 secondary cultural history, not an independently established chronology. Reader locator uses the actual chapter title; PDF retrieval coordinates are internal.
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Mexicanpulque/mezcal, Californian missions/missiongrape, Texasstatehood/war, Indigenousdispossession and liquortrades despite laws, TaosLightning, trappers/overlandstages, Burton1860MormonbeerwineValleyTan. Important retrieval for diverse frontier distilling, crossborder markets and selective enforcement. Repeated mezcal=distilledpulque false simplification;1835Texasindependence and49th'longitude' chronological/geographicerrors. FortLaramie39506inoneday implausible probablyperiodtotal. BurtonLakeVictoria attribution suspect. Indigenous racialized claims rejected; colonial descriptions contextual not neutral. LDS practices historical/time-specific, not current generalization. No adulteration/unsafehistoricalrecipe instructions retained.
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