Description

Author: Loomis, Noel M. (1905-1969)

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Pub Date: 1958

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Bookstore sticker on lower front/ pastedown.  Previous owner’s blindstamp on upper corner ffep.  Pencil date and location written on upper edge ffep.  Includes fold-out map.  Without dust jacket.  One approx. 1/4″ scratch to rear board.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: In 1841, some three to four hundred Texans, under the leadership of Hugh McLeod,  began an expedition from Austin to Santa Fe, ostensibly to conquer the New Mexico territory from Mexico and bring some of the New Mexican riches (really?) back to Texas.  They never reached Santa Fe.  Captured by Mexican militia, the Pioneers were marched a thousand miles to Mexico City as prisoners.  Some of those who survived were eventually repatriated to Texas, some later fought in the Mexican-American War and/or the Civil War, and some survivors stayed in Mexico.  An ignominious end to glorious dreams.  The definitive account of the expedition is George Wilkins Kendall’s Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition (see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/memoir/narrative-of-the-texan-santa-fe-expedition-comprising-a-description-of-a-tour-through-texas-and-across-the-great-southwestern-prairies-the-camanche-and-caygua-hunting-grounds-with-an-account-of-the/)