Adventures in Mexico; Experienced During a Captivity of Seven Months.

Boston: George R. Holbrook & Co, 1848.

Price: $300.00


About the item

Twelfth Edition. Frontispiece portrait. 132 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound, with boards present. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer and stamp of Edward H. Whorf. Internally fine, some foxing. Howes D423.

Item #241622

The author, a clerk on a steamboat and then a Mexican War Volunteer, was captured by Canales' band of Guerillas and experienced a rigorous Captivity. He describes the wretched internal conditions, incidents of the War, his final escape and perilous return journey across the country. There are 3 chapters on Texas.