Comanche Bondage: Dr. John Charles Beale's Settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in Southern Texas of the 1830's...
first edition
1955 · Glendale
by Rister, Carl Coke
Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1955 First edition. One of 1063 copies. 210pp. Illustrations, maps and portraits. Light blue cloth, gilt. A very fine and bright copy with the very elusive pictorial dust jacket. Very scarce, especially in this condition and with the dust jacket. A wide-ranging study, despite the rather narrow focus defined by its title. It studies the settlement process in the far Southwest during the 1830's, travels and explorations, frontier life, and trade. The captivity of Mrs. Horn and Mrs. Harris by the Comanches is vividly revealed in Mrs. Horn's narrative, which also gives insights into this tribe's way of life. With an annotated reprint of Sarah Ann Horn's Narrative of her captivity among the Comanches, her ransom by traders in New Mexico and return via the Santa Fé Trail. [Clark and Brunet I: 210; Clark and Brunet II: 237].. (Inventory #: 8278)