Fever tree Mediterranean tonic water

Pfft!

Made with zesty lemon time from a small family farm in Provoz

and essential oils from herbs that grow in the Mediterranean sunshine.

So, if three quarters of your G&T is a Fever tree tonic,

maybe it's time to call it a T&G.

Fever tree. Mix with the best.

Whoa, that takes me straight to the mad.

Before the Civil War,

Lucien Maxwell owned the largest single land grant in American history.

In the early 1840s, a French Canadian trapper and a Mexican businessman

partnered up to submit a claim to the Mexican government for 1.7 million acres of land.

It encompassed the entire northeast corner of modern day New Mexico

and part of southern Colorado.

They told the local Mexican governor they'd give him a quarter interest in the land,

and not surprisingly, he approved the grant almost immediately.

Lucien Maxwell was a respected guide in the area,

who'd worked with Kit Carson and John Fremont on their expedition to California.

He married the daughter of one of the two original owners of the land grant

and then spent the next two decades acquiring it all.

He eventually bought out everyone involved in the grant until he owned all 1.7 million acres,

which made him the largest landowner in the country at the time.

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