The Rio Grande, Spanish for Big River, starts with the snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains and runs through southern Colorado, through New Mexico and then forms the border between Texas and Mexico The river flows a total of 1,760 miles, making it the 5th largest river in the nation The Rio Grande was the Nation's first designated Wild and ScenicAnd of the Rio Grande, Feb 3, 1944, USMex, 59 Stat 1219, 1237 hereinafter USMexico Treaty (allocating 15 million acrefeet per year of the Colorado River to consume Colorado River water, the law of the river ignores the wider range of values that people inRio Grande Directed by John Ford With John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risktaking recruit and his wife from whom he
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