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9781601050281
2006 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition of one of the few sources for the events of these years, in particular the expedition in 1846 and 1847 under Col. Stephen W. Kearney and his ""Army of the West"" through New Mexico and on to California. The work chronicles the involvement of such figures as Kit Carson, Col. A.W. Doniphan, Charles Bent, Commodore Robert F. Stockton, and Captain John C. FrŽmont, and records many details about the rivalries and confusions of these leaders and their men as they undertook independent campaigns that eventually brought about the capture of California and the Treaty of Cahuenga. Reprint of the Philadelphia: 1847 edition. 2 maps.Cutts, J. Madison is the author of 'Conquest of California and New Mexico by the Forces of the United States in the Years 1846 and 1847 A Study of the Epoch of Jenkins' Ear', published 2006 under ISBN 9781601050281 and ISBN 1601050283.
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