Beschreibung:

Title: Narrative of an Expedition Across the Greath South-Western Prairies, from Texas to Santa Fé; With an Account of the Disasters Which Befel the Expedition from Want of Food and the Attacks of Hostile Indians, The Final Capture of the Texans and Their Sufferings on a March of Two Thousand Miles as Prisoners of War, and in the Prisons and Lazarettos of Mexico Author: Kendall, George W. Place: London Publisher: David Bogue Date: 1845 Description: 2 volumes. xii, [13]-432; viii, [13]-436 pp. Steel-engraved frontispieces; folding map. 7x4¼, original blindstamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Second English Edition. "Kendall's book is the best first-hand story of the ill-fated invasion of New Mexico in 1841, an unsuccessful effort to extend the western border of the Republic of Texas to the Rio Grande. The Texans, poorly supplied and led, were captured by the Mexicans and marched to prison in Mexico City. Kendall was later released and he returned to New Orleans and his newspaper, the `Picayune,' which he had helped to establish five years earlier. Accounts of some of the incidents first appeared in print in a series of articles in that newspaper in 1842 and subsequently [& partially plagiarized from Kendall] in Frederick Marryat's `Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet'...." - Wagner-Camp. The folding map is of "Texas and part of Mexico & the United States..." It has a short repaired tear. Howes K75; Rader 2158; Wagner-Camp 110:3. Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbing to covers, spine ends chipped, joints cracking and worn, leaning; old rubberstamp of Jno. A. Horrey to endpapers, back of the map, title-pages, etc., inscription to pastedown dated 1846; good to very good. Item number: 163073