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Hughes, John T.
Estimate
400 - 600 USD
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Description
- 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... Cincinnati: J.A. & U.P. James, 1849.
- paper, ink, calf
8vo (220 x 138 mm). Modern calf.
Literature
Howes H769; Wagner-Camp 134:3
Catalogue Note
First published in 1847 in a very small edition, of which only a few copies are known. "Doniphan's and Kearney's conquests gave the United States its claim to New Mexico and Arizona, finally acquired by the Gadsen Purchase"