COL. CROCKETT'S EXPLOITS AND ADVENTURES IN TEXAS: WHEREIN IS CONTAINED A FULL ACCOUNT OF HIS JOURNEY FROM TENNESSEE TO THE RED RIVER AND NATCHITOCHES, AND THENCE ACROSS TEXAS TO SAN ANTONIO; INCLUDING MANY HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES; TOGETHER WITH A TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND POLITICAL VIEW OF TEXAS
by [Crockett, Davy]
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London, 1837. vii,152pp. Contemporary pebbled cloth, printed label. Some dampstaining to boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on first text leaf. Scattered light foxing. Very good. First English edition of this entertaining version of Crockett's adventures. Howes attributes this work to Richard Penn Smith. "Ingenious pseudo-autobiography, purportedly printed from the manuscript found with the baggage of a Mexican general slain at San Jacinto" - Howes. HOWES S654. GRAFF 3864. RAINES, p.57. SABIN 17566, 83778. STREETER TEXAS 1192.
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- COL. CROCKETT'S EXPLOITS AND ADVENTURES IN TEXAS: WHEREIN IS CONTAINED A FULL ACCOUNT OF HIS JOURNEY FROM TENNESSEE TO THE RED RIVER AND NATCHITOCHES, AND THENCE ACROSS TEXAS TO SAN ANTONIO; INCLUDING MANY HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES; TOGETHER WITH A TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND POLITICAL VIEW OF TEXAS
- Author
- [Crockett, Davy]
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- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1837
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