THE PRISONERS OF PEROTE: CONTAINING A JOURNAL KEPT BY THE AUTHOR, WHO WAS CAPTURED BY THE MEXICANS, AT MIER, DECEMBER 25, 1842, AND RELEASED FROM PEROTE, MAY 16, 1844
by Stapp, William Preston
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Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber and Company, 1845.. 164pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers spotted, worn at edges, neatly torn halfway up the front joint. Scattered light foxing. Very good. In a folding cardboard case. The most readable and reliable eyewitness account of the Mier Expedition. Stapp joined the Texas forces in October 1842 and was one of the members of the Texas expedition against Mier. Stapp and his cohorts were taken prisoner in 1842, forced to march from the Rio Grande to Mexico City, and released in 1844. His narrative includes a chronology of events in Texas from 1836 to 1842, and accounts of the Dawson Massacre and the Vasquez and Woll expeditions. "This was the first book to appear on the Mier Expedition; it is still one of the best" - Jenkins. HOWES S891, "aa." BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 197. DOBIE, p.58. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES 27. GRAFF 3949. RAINES, p.194. SABIN 90483. STREETER TEXAS 1610. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 87 (note).
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- THE PRISONERS OF PEROTE: CONTAINING A JOURNAL KEPT BY THE AUTHOR, WHO WAS CAPTURED BY THE MEXICANS, AT MIER, DECEMBER 25, 1842, AND RELEASED FROM PEROTE, MAY 16, 1844
- Author
- Stapp, William Preston
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- G.B. Zieber and Company
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- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1845.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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- Wrappers
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- 12mo
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