Mexico and Central America

About this eBook

Author

Franck, Harry Alverson, 1881-1962

Title

Mexico and Central America : a geographical reader

Original Publication

Dansville: F.A. Owen Pub. Co., 1927.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

F1201: North America local history: Mexico

Subject

Readers -- Geography

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 79021

Release Date

July 4, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MEXICO and CENTRAL AMERICA A Geographical Reader
2. 2.PUBLISHERS’ FOREWORD
3. 3.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
4. 4.Coats of Arms of Mexico and the Central American Countries
5. 5.CONTENTS — MAPS — CHAPTER I OUR SOUTHERN NEIGHBORS — Some Things We Should Know First — The Central American Countries
6. 6.CHAPTER II ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER — The Rio Bravo del Norte — The Two Laredos — On Mexican Railroads — My First Mexican Journey
7. 7.CHAPTER III TRAVELING AS THE MEXICANS DO — A Cold Night Ride — A Real Mexican City
8. 8.CHAPTER IV SOMETHING OF MEXICAN HISTORY — The Aztec Religion — The Spaniards Arrive — Mexico as a Republic — Porfirio Diaz
9. 9.CHAPTER V NORTHWESTERN MEXICO — The Yaqui Indians — The Tame Indians — Differing Characteristics
10. 10.CHAPTER VI ON THE GREAT TABLE-LAND — The Best-Known Mexican Beverage — My First Tramp in Mexico — A Cold Lodging
11. 11.CHAPTER VII I GO TO WORK IN A MINE — The Sights of Guanajuato — What I Saw at the Mine — Following the Ore — “High-Graders”
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII VARIED PRODUCTS AND HOW THEY ARE SOLD — Mexico Has Many Products — A Land of Markets — The Mexican Market Is a Queer Place
13. 13.CHAPTER IX CITY AND COUNTRY LIFE IN MEXICO — Round about Lake Chapala — A Walk across Michoacán — I Continue to Tramp — The Dangers of the Trail
14. 14.CHAPTER X GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH MEXICO CITY — Tzintzuntzán and Morelia — On to Mexico City — In the Mexican Capital — Stores and Streets — City Houses — Mexicans Have No “Servant Problem”
15. 15.CHAPTER XI RECREATIONS AND SOCIAL LIFE — Popular Sports — The Plaza Promenade — An Odd Kind of Courting — Other Mexican Customs
16. 16.CHAPTER XII THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT — The Constitution of 1917 — Improving Agriculture
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII ROUND ABOUT THE MEXICAN CAPITAL — The Famous Volcanoes — A Place of Pilgrimage
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV MY JOURNEY TO THE GULF COAST — The “City of the Angels” — Down to Vera Cruz — Two Gulf Ports
19. 19.CHAPTER XV TROPICAL MEXICO — The Isthmus of Tehuantepec — The Town of Tehuantepec — On to Guatemala — The Great Peninsula of Yucatan
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI THROUGH GUATEMALA ON FOOT AND BY RAIL — Where Coffee Grows — Guatemalan Indians — We Reach the Capital
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII A CONTRAST IN CIVILIZATIONS — A Country inside Its Own Capital — Through Guatemala — “Bananaland”
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII IN THE DEPTHS OF HONDURAS — Social and Political Conditions — I Plan to Walk — A Lonely Trail — Honduran Food
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX A VERY PECULIAR “ROYAL HIGHWAY” — Valuable Forests — Scenes along the Way — Meeting Strange People — Honduran Hospitality — The “City of the Silver Hills” — Down to the Pacific
24. 24.CHAPTER XX INDUSTRIOUS LITTLE SALVADOR; AND BELIZE — The Usual Way to Enter Salvador — The Capital and Its Troubles — England’s Central American Colony
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI NICARAGUA, AND AMERICAN “CO-OPERATION” — Recreations of the People — The Nicaraguan Canal Question — An Interesting History — Our Relations with Nicaragua — The Results of “Co-operation” — The Adventurous William Walker
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII COSTA RICA—THE “RICH COAST” — Into the Highlands Once More — The Delightful Costa Rican Capital — A Progressive Land
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII PANAMA AND THE GREAT CANAL — Building the Canal — Ideal Living Conditions — The Republic of Panama — Products and People

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