31. [BORDERLANDS]. UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF
STATE. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the
United States, Transmitted to Congress, with the Annual
Message of the President [Ulysses S. Grant],
December 4, 1876, Preceded by a List of Papers and Followed
by an Index of Persons and Subjects. Washington: GPO,
1876. lvi, 648 pp. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Binding
faded and tape repairs, upper hinge cracked, occasional
pencil underlining in text (highlighting the borderlands
material). Ink stamps of the Rhode Island Historical
Society on title and a few other pages; contemporary
anonymous ink presentation from the State Department.
First
edition. The section of dispatches from Mexico (pp.
386-414) contain solid documentation on borderlands,
especially the Kickapoo and Lipan tribes, reverberations
from the turmoil of Diaz’s revolt against
Juárez (including Diaz taking Matamoros), Mackenzie
and his troops crossing the border without obtaining proper
permission, escape of Cortina and his joining the
revolutionaries (complete printing of his
Pronunciamiento of May 18, 1876, plus the usual
spate of depredations and border troubles. Appendix C (pp.
637-40) relates to the Mexican Claims Commission, and
particularly the Piedras Negras cases. Unrelated to the
borderlands directly is a notice of the death of Santa
Anna, who had returned to Mexico from banishment in
1874.
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