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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.
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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, 8o (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)
2 volumes, 8
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)