33. [BORDERLANDS]. UNITED STATES. PRESIDENT (James
Buchanan). Difficulties on Southwestern Frontier:
Message from the President of the United States...
Washington: HRED52, 1860. 147 pp. 8vo, new grey linen,
gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. Fine.
First
edition. Not in Adams, Graff, Howes, etc. Pingenot:
The most extensive and important compilation of original
reports on the Cortinas War, cattle rustling, and Comanche
raids in South Texas during this period. It includes
reports, letters, proclamations, military orders, memorials
and petitions from citizen groups, etc., from a virtual
Who’s Who of Texas military on the eve of the Civil
War. There are reports from Robert E. Lee, Sam Houston,
John S. "Rip" Ford, H. R. Runnels, John Hemphill, Cortinas,
and many others.
($100-200)