Bits of Texas History in the Melting Pot of America in Two Parts of Which This Is Part I entitled: The Prisoners of Matamoros by Captain Reuben M. Potter and The Angel of Goliad by Harbert Davenport, Together with Five Appendixes
San Antonio, TX: Artes Graficas, 1950. Very Good + / Good. Item #33337
San Antonio, TX: Artes Graficas, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. 66pp. Illustrated dust jacket; teal boards stamped in black. Dust jacket lightly worn and toned along edges; long tear to front panel arcing from top edge to front fold with brief tape mending to recto. Patch of soiling to edges of boards; mild shelfwear. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Good to Very Good.
Canales in his introduction discusses the reasons Latin Americans and Anglo-Americans in Texas have had strife and difficulty in their relations: the Texas War of Independence, the War with Mexico, and maintains that Anna Pennybacker's textbook on the History of Texas stoked animosity towards Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. The compilation here is to designed to bring the people of his state together, "to produce the best and finest type of a true and loyal American in Texas."
Price: $200.00