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Kendall, George W. 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 and Brothers, 1844. First edition. Two volumes. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titling to the spines. xii, (13) -405 + xii, (11)-406 pp. Illustrated with 2 engraved plates and folding map in Vol. I; 3 engraved plates in volume II. HOWES K75, WAGNER-CAMP 110:10. RADER 2157. RITTENHOUSE 347. GRAFF, FIFTY TEXAS RARITIES . GRAFF 2306. William Reese called this work, "a literary and historical classic." REESE, Best of the West, 84. Provenance:Property from the Estate of Lewis W. Walker, Jr., Hudson, OH Condition: Covers rubbed and worn with fraying at head and tail of spines; owner's name and date on endpages (1902), also blind embossed label. Plates have intermittent foxing; heavier to first 60 pages of volume I. Map with 4 inch closed tear toward the inside edge.