Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
Stephen AmbroseNothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
Stephen AmbroseI was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
Stephen AmbroseTo have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.
Stephen Ambrose