Our Catholic Heritage in Texas
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many of them had consented to live in the missions; many more had become friendly and in the course of time would join the ranks of the neophytes. The temporary structures and roughly surveyed fields of the early years had been replaced by more substantial buildings and better cultivated farms; the straggling droves of cattle, goats, sheep, mules, and horses, brought with so many hardships to the missions, had grown into respectable herds under the constant care of the missionaries. A real start had been made at the price of untold sacrifices.
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