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144 pp. Illustrated with 8 wood-engraved vignettes including one on the title page; wood-engraved frontispiece; 3 wood-engraved map plans, including Santa Fé, Battle of Brazito, and Battle of Sacramento. (8vo), 23.5x15 cm 9¼X6"), original salmon printed pictorial wrappers.

First published in 1847 in a very small edition, of which only a few copies are known; this undated edition was likely published after 1854. "Doniphan's and Kearney's conquests gave the United States its claim to New Mexico and Arizona, finally acquired by the Gadsen Purchase" (Howes). The book recounts "the adventures of the First Regiment of Missouri Cavalry in New Mexico and Chihuahua" - (Wagner-Camp).  The present copy with contents unopened and untrimmed.

Provenance: Estate Book Sales, DC, 5/74

References: Graff 2006; Howes H769; Streeter Sale 165; Wagner-Camp 134:6; Wheat Transmississippi 546.