Stephen Watts Kearny. Soldier of the West.
Norman: Univ. Oklahoma Press, (1961). xv, 448 pp. Illus. with 16 b/w photos and 1 map. 8vo. Cloth with gilt titles. First edition. A very good copy, scattered foxing to endpapers, in a very good dust jacket. Tutorow 3763. Item #38151
Stephen Watts Kearny (1794-1848) was an important army officer who served in the War of 1812, the American West, the Mexican-American War, and the conquest of California. "uses scores of letters and unused original sources to write one of the best biographies of the Mexican War figure," Tutorow, Mexican-American War: an annotated bibliography, p. 296.
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