Category: Mexican War

Eagles and Empire: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for a Continent

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: mcr2077

ISBN-13: 9780553806526

Condition: Good, ARC

The time is the 1840s. The enemy is Mexico. And the war is one of the least known and most important in both Mexican and United States history—a war that really began much earlier and whose consequences still echo today. Acclaimed historian David A. Clary presents this epic struggle for a continent for the first time from both sides, using original Mexican and North American sources.To Mexico, the yanqui illegals pouring into her territories of Texas and California threatened Mexican sovereignty and security. To North Americans, they manifested their destiny to rule the continent. Two nations,...
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848: Papers of the Sesquicentennial Symposium, 1848-1998

By: Dona Ana County Historical Society

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: mcnm2006

ISBN-13: 9781881325390

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The Dona Ana County Historical Society sponsored the symposium at which the essays in this volume were first presented. This Sesquicentennial Symposium to commemorate the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848-1998, took place in Las Cruces, New Mexico on February 28, 1998 at the Las Cruces Hilton, with an attendance of 262 persons chiefly from New Mexico and west Texas. This event was supported in part by a grant from the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. 100 pages, indexed.

Names include: Beaubien, Ewing, Grassham, Montoya, Pesquera, Ulloa,
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The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848

By: Jenkins Garrett

Price: ~~$75.00~~ $45.00

Publisher: Texas A & M : 1995

Seller ID: tam1402

ISBN-13: 9780890965870

Binding: Hard Cover

A bibliography of the holdings of the libraries at the University of Texas at Arlington concerning the Mexican American War., illustrated. 693 pages indexed.
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More Zeal Than Discretion: The Westward Adventures of Walter P. Lane

By: Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.

Price: $18.00

Seller ID: mctx1559

ISBN-13: 9781603440707

Binding: Library

Condition: New

Walter P. Lane emigrated from Ireland as a young boy, fought in three wars, sailed the Texas coast with a privateer, and traveled to California and Arizona in search of gold. What drove this man, who in many ways typifies the adventurers who contributed to the westward expansion in the United States during the early nineteenth century? Through his mining of personal papers, memoirs, contemporary sources, and archived collections, Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. has produced a comprehensive portrait of the man who charged across the field at San Jacinto, aided in the removal of Indians and Tejano settler...
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Doniphan's Expedition

By: John Taylor Hughes

Price: $16.95

Seller ID: tam006

ISBN-13: 9780890967959

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A teacher turned soldier, John T. Hughes like so many other volunteers saw in the outbreak of the Mexican War the possibility for adventure and glory. He joined the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers and announced that he planned to write a history of his fighting unit commanded by Col. Alexander Doniphan, who would come to be regarded as among the finest volunteer officers of the war. The result of Hughes's efforts certainly is one of the most colorful personal accounts of the Mexican War ever written. Doniphan's Expedition follows the regiment on its grueling 850-mile march fro...
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Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Volume 13, Civil and Mexican Wars, 1861, 1846

By: Military Historical Society of Massachusetts

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Military Historical Society of Massachusetts : 1913

Seller ID: mcmi2118

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Used, Boards shaken

Maps, pull-out maps, and fifteen chapters, each written by a military man. Errata pasted on List of Maps page.

Index. 659 p. maps &
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The Mexican War

By: Otis A. Singletary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: : 1960

Seller ID: mcmi1708

ISBN-13: 9780226760599

Condition: Very Good, some markings

81 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. Mr. Singletary treats the military, political, economic, and diplomatic aspects of the war. He focuses on the ways in which the Mexican Wa exemplified the dynamic spirit of Manifest Destiny and was as microcosm of peculiarly Americans-and peculiarly democratic-problems of wagging war.
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The Mexican War

By: Otis A. Singletary

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1962

Seller ID: mcmi2114

ISBN-13: 9780226760612

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Used

Mr. Singletary treats the military, political, economic, and diplomatic aspects of the war. He focuses on the ways in which the Mexican War exemplified the dynamic spirit of Manifest Destiny and was a microcosm of peculiarly American—and peculiarly democratic—problems of waging war.

Index. 181 p. &
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Image for The March to Monterrey: The Diary of Lieutenant Rankin Dilworth, U.S. Army: A Narrative of Troop Movements and Observations on Daily Life with General Zachary Taylor's Army

The March to Monterrey: The Diary of Lieutenant Rankin Dilworth, U.S. Army: A Narrative of Troop Movements and Observations on Daily Life with General Zachary Taylor's Army

By: Rankin Dilworth, Lawrence R. Clayton, Joseph E. Chance

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Texas Western Press : 1996

Seller ID: mi2200

ISBN-13: 9780874041989

Binding: Soft cover

This diary documents the sights and sounds of the beginning of the Mexican War, as observed by young Rankin Dilworth, an officer recently graduated from the United States Military Academy. The diary contains his observations of the Mexican cities of Matamoros, Reynosa, Camargo, and Cerralvo, and how they appeared in 1846. Dilworth's first entry of April 28, 1846, is from the garrison at Jefferson Barracks; his last entry of September 19, 1846, is from Monterrey, Mexico.

119 p. &
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Blood Over Texas

By: Sanford H. Montaigne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Arlington House Publishers : 1976

Seller ID: mc1875

ISBN-13: 9780870003424

Condition: used good

Heavily Underlining in some pages. Free shipping media mail.160 pages with index. In colorful style Mr. Montaigne recounts the early settlement of Texas. He proves that the American settlers, under the leadership of Stephen F. Austin, were loyal subjects of the Spanish crown, later of the Mexican Republic which replaced it.
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Image for The Soldiery of West Virginia in the French and Indian War; Lord Dunmore's War; the Revolution; the Later Indian Wars; the Whiskey Insurrection; the Second War with England; the War with Mexico. And Addenda Relating to West Virginians in the Civil War.

The Soldiery of West Virginia in the French and Indian War; Lord Dunmore's War; the Revolution; the Later Indian Wars; the Whiskey Insurrection; the Second War with England; the War with Mexico. And Addenda Relating to West Virginians in the Civil War.

By: Virgil Anson Lewis

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Clearfield Publishing Company : 1978

Seller ID: wvar2202

ISBN-13: 9780806302102

Binding: Soft cover

This is the most comprehensive compilation of West Virginia soldiers in the Revolution and other wars, containing rosters and, in many cases, service records of thousands of soldiers, with narratives on the various wars. The rosters and rolls, here collected for the first time, are drawn from both published and unpublished sources, the original records being in many cases in the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia.

Indexes. 227 p. &
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Category: Mexican War