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Author
Publisher
Texas State Historical Association
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession is a classic, ribald tale of nineteenth-century life. Perhaps the best written account of a soldier's adventures and misadventures in the Mexican War and its aftermath, this unexpurgated edition is now available for the first time, complete with over 150 of Chamberlain's wonderful textual illustrations reproduced in full color. My Confession is the story of Samuel Chamberlain, a Boston boy who hoped to be a theological...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's 1845. Texas joins the union and Mexico threatens war over the disputed Texas border. Meanwhile, expansionists dream of an America that sprawls all the way to the Pacific Coast. Can a conflict with an already war-torn Mexico satisfy this lust for territory? The Mexican-American War becomes the heroic proving ground for future Civil War generals and presidents of the United States, Mexico, and the Confederacy. But the glories of victory are tempered...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The alternating voices of Paddy Quinn, a young man with journalistic aspirations, and Mexican soldier Augustin Juvero recount the story of John Riley, who deserts the American army to fight for Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
Author
Series
Frontier military volume 25
Publisher
Arthur H. Clark Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Examines the settlement of the area that became the southwestern portion of the United States, detailing how it evolved from land settled by Native Americans, to Spanish territory, to states that were pawns between the North and South prior to the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico. A swashbuckling pirate ship cuts through the early morning fog. Crouching like a tiger about to spring, her figurehead is a huge and ferocious rat with crooked teeth and gouged-out eyes. When the daring Giant Rat of Sumatra drops anchor in San Diego, twelve-year-old cabin boy Shipwreck only wants to begin his long journey home to...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with Mexico over the disputed Rio Grande boundary. Ximena Salomé is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband's memory and defend her country,...
Author
Series
Southwest historical volume 7
Publisher
The Arthur H. Clark company
Pub. Date
1938.
Language
English