DONIPHAN'S EXPEDITION : CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO; GENERAL KEARNEY'S OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA; DONIPHAN'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE NAVAJOS; HIS UNPARALLELED MARCH UPON CHIHUAHUA AND DURANGO; AND THE OPERATIONS OF GENERAL PRICE AT SANTA FE : WITH A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF COL. DONIPHAN; Illustrated with Plans of Battle-Fields, a Map, and Fine Engravings

Hughes, John T. (of The First Regiment of Missouri Cavalry)

Published by J.A. & U.P. James, Cincinnati, 1850

About this Item

Octavo, 7.7 in. x 5 in., pp. 407. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits and thirteen additional engravings and maps. LACKING large map. Newer half calf over original brown cloth boards with design stamped in blind to front and back. TItle on white panels to rebacked spine. Rubbing and chips to board edges with corners showing. Light-colored horizontal stain across front board. Ex-library, with library pocket to front pastedown. Spotting to endpapers. Age-toning to pages. Howes H-769. Wagner-Camp 134:3. John T. Hughes (1817 1862) was a Confederate military officer who served as a colonel in the Missouri State Guard and Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was an 1844 graduate of Bonne Femme College and taught school until the outbreak of the Mexican War in 1846. He enlisted as a private in the 1st Regiment Missouri Mounted Volunteers of Doniphan's expedition and penned his personal account of the trek upon his discharge in 1847. Hughes' book provided national fame and following his move to Plattsburg, Missouri in 1848, he became editor of a Clinton County, Missouri, newspaper, the school superintendent, militia colonel, and state representative in 1854. (from WIkipedia).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DONIPHAN'S EXPEDITION : CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO; GENERAL KEARNEY'S OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA; DONIPHAN'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE NAVAJOS; HIS UNPARALLELED MARCH UPON CHIHUAHUA AND DURANGO; AND THE OPERATIONS OF GENERAL PRICE AT SANTA FE : WITH A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF COL. DONIPHAN; Illustrated with Plans of Battle-Fields, a Map, and Fine Engravings
• Publisher: J.A. & U.P. James, Cincinnati
• Publication Date: 1850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana, Western