29. [BORDERLANDS]. UNITED STATES. CONGRESS. HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES. COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS.
Testimony Taken...in Relation to the Texas Border
Troubles. Washington: HMD 64, 1878. 313 pp., 2 folding
lithographed maps: (1) untitled large-scale map of the
Texas-Mexico border, outlined in red, 42.0 x 60.1 cm
(16-1/2 x 24 inches); (2) Extract from Carte du Mexique
Dresseé au Depôt de la Guerre, par
Mr. Niox...Paris 1873, shaded in terracotta,
37.0 x 61.2 cm (14-3/4 x 24-7/8 inches). 8vo, new half
brown calf over marbled boards. Very fine, with two
excellent, little-known maps of the Texas-Mexico
borderlands.
First
edition. Tate, The Indians of Texas: An Annotated
Research Bibliography 2491: "An essential source of
detailed reports and sworn testimony for Indian and bandit
attacks in South Texas since the 1850s and the Mexican
government’s failure to take action against these
raiders. The report is also useful in providing information
on attempts to find historical precedents for pursuing
‘renegade Indians’ across international
boundaries." Not in Adams or Howes.
Pingenot:
Contains testimony by Lt. Col. Wm. Shafter and Lieut.
Bullis giving accounts of their expeditions into northern
Mexico in pursuit of Indians who had been marauding the
Texas frontier. Map 1...shows the wagon road from Fort
Clark up the Devil’s to the Pecos rivers and to the
Rio Grande; also the routes followed by Shafter, Bullis,
Col. Young, Capt. Keyes, and others on forays into the
mountains of northern Mexico; Map 2...[shows] the entire
borderland regions of Northern Mexico. A 21-page Appendix
includes articles in English from Mexican newspapers as
well as reports by Mexican officials showing their concerns
over U.S. military intrusions into their territory. Texas
Ranger Captain Lee McNelly’s fight at Las Cuevas is
also included in the committee’s report. A rare and
important borderland document presenting both U.S. and
Mexican perspectives.
($400-800)