KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Cayuga Hunting-Grounds, With an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico . New York: Harper, 1844.
KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Cayuga Hunting-Grounds, With an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico . New York: Harper, 1844. 2 volumes, 8 o (198 x 125 mm). Detailed folding map showing the route of the ill-fated expedition (425 x 300 mm), additional map from the London edition, 5 full-page engraved plates (map loose and lightly spotted, with a few tears crossing image). (Some pale spotting and occasional pale marginal dampstaining.) Original publisher's blindstamped black cloth, gilt pictorial stamp (a horesman chasing a buffalo) on spines (rebacked preserving original spines, endpapers renewed); cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION. A dramatic account (by a New Orleans journalist who accompanied the expedition) of an ill-conceived 1841 trek across the Southwest instigated by Texas President Mirabeau Lamar in an attempt to extend Texas's boundary westward to the Rio Grande and--in effect--annex New Mexico. After severe tribulations, the survivors were arrested by Governor Manuel Armijo and marched to Mexico City, provoking a public outcry and diplomatic crisis in Texas and the U.S. Most of the Texans were released six months later. Field 818; Graff 2304; Howes K-75; Sabin 37360 ( "A romantic narrative of adventure, describing the terrible disasters which befell the expedition from the attacks of the hostile Indians"); Streeter I:379; Streeter Texas 1515; Wagner-Camp-Becker 110:1; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 483. (2)
KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Cayuga Hunting-Grounds, With an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico . New York: Harper, 1844.
KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867). Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Cayuga Hunting-Grounds, With an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico . New York: Harper, 1844. 2 volumes, 8 o (198 x 125 mm). Detailed folding map showing the route of the ill-fated expedition (425 x 300 mm), additional map from the London edition, 5 full-page engraved plates (map loose and lightly spotted, with a few tears crossing image). (Some pale spotting and occasional pale marginal dampstaining.) Original publisher's blindstamped black cloth, gilt pictorial stamp (a horesman chasing a buffalo) on spines (rebacked preserving original spines, endpapers renewed); cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION. A dramatic account (by a New Orleans journalist who accompanied the expedition) of an ill-conceived 1841 trek across the Southwest instigated by Texas President Mirabeau Lamar in an attempt to extend Texas's boundary westward to the Rio Grande and--in effect--annex New Mexico. After severe tribulations, the survivors were arrested by Governor Manuel Armijo and marched to Mexico City, provoking a public outcry and diplomatic crisis in Texas and the U.S. Most of the Texans were released six months later. Field 818; Graff 2304; Howes K-75; Sabin 37360 ( "A romantic narrative of adventure, describing the terrible disasters which befell the expedition from the attacks of the hostile Indians"); Streeter I:379; Streeter Texas 1515; Wagner-Camp-Becker 110:1; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 483. (2)
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