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Was the first 'Thanksgiving' feast actually along the Rio Grande?


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Thanksgiving is steeped in stories of pilgrims and native people enjoying a harvest feast in Plymouth. But historians say the first "Thanksgiving" was 23 years earlier, in 1598 along the Rio Grande.
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