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(MEXICAN WAR). COOKE, P[hilip]. St. George. The Conquest of New Mexico and California: An Historical & Personal Narrative. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. Oakland: Biobooks, 1952. Illus. folding map. xi, 165pp. A fine copy in orig. cloth. Howes C-738: "Essentially a sequel to his `Scenes and Adventures.'" Limited to 600 copies.
COOKE, P[hilip] St. G[eorge]. Scenes and Adventures in the Army: or, Romance of Military Life. Phila.: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1859. 2nd issue. 8vo. 432pp. Orig. blindstamped cloth. Light wear to spine ends, spine gently sunned, private bookplates on front pastedown and front free endpaper, faint scattered foxing to exterior leaves, else a very good copy. HOWES C-740, "aa." Sabin 16339. Wagner-Camp 288:2. Clark III:24. Field 359. Rittenhouse 132. Graff 871. Rader 914. Mintz 105. Second issue, probably the same sheets as the first of 1857, with a cancel title and Cooke's new rank of colonel. "Personal narrative of service in the West with the 2nd Dragoons, escorting Santa Fe traders and Oregon emigrants, etc., 1829-45."-Howes. "Spans the exciting period from his posting at Fort Atkinson on the Missouri in 1831, through his overland journey escorting emigrants from Fort Leavenworth to Oregon in 1845 and return via Brent's Fort . making frequent forays across the Great Plains and engaging in numerous fights with Indians, particularly Comanches, along the Santa Fe Trail. Readers have noted that the text seems written by two utterly different voices, and there is a theory that part of it was possibly ghostwritten by Herman Melville"-Reese, Best of the West 145.