Recollections Of Western Texas, Descriptive And Narrative Including An Indian Campaign, 1852-55 Interspersed With Illustrative Anecdotes

WRIGHT, WILLIAM & JOHN [WOOSTER, ROBERT - EDITED BY]

Publication: The Book Club of Texas, 1995, Austin

First edition thus. 8vo. Originally published in 1857. Limited to 300 copies. Gray cloth, titles on paper spine label, tan front and rear endpapers, 109 pp., preface, introduction, notes to the introduction, illustrated, map, appendix, index. Preface by Robert M. Utley. The Wrights were Irish immigrants who served in the Mounted Rifles on the Texas frontier for several years during the 1850s. As well as a military memoir this is also a travelogue of Texas in the antebellum years as written from the outlook of the foreign visitors. Fine, bright copy issued without a dust jacket of one of the rarest Texas books.

Inventory Number: 48793