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Title: Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition, comprising a Description of a Tour through Texas, and across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Caygüa 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 Author: Kendall, Geo. Wilkins Place: London Publisher: Wiley & Putnam Date: 1844 Description: 2 vols. [2], 405; xii, [11]-406 pp. Illus. with 5 steel-engraved plates; folding map. 8¼x5¼, rebound in later gray cloth, original cover panels and gilt-lettered spine portion of spines laid down. First English Edition. English edition of this account of an expedition of Texans against the Mexicans in New Mexico, using the same sheets as the American edition, but with a different imprint on the title-page. Wanger-Camp says that "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'...." (Graff 2304); Howes K74; Jenkins 116B; Rader 2157; Rittenhouse 347; Wagner-Camp 110:2; Wheat Transmississippi 483. Lot Amendments Condition: Original cloth panels are scuffed; lightly foxed contents, Vol. II title page with small piece of tape on corner, lacks the tissue guard there; very good. Item number: 249832