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Bayard, Samuel John. Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856.

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Benton, Senator Thomas Hart. Thirty Years’ View; or A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1854.

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Brooks, Nathan Covington. A Complete History of the Mexican War, 1846–1848. Albuquerque: Gilberto Espinosa, 1849. Reproduced by the Rio Grande Press, Chicago, 1965.

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Conner, David. The Correspondence of Commodore David Conner, USN, During the War of 1812 and Mexican War. Philadelphia: Henkel.

^*Conner, Philip Syng Physick. “Commodore Conner: Notes on Maclay’s History of the United States Navy.” United Review, 1895.

—–. The Home Squadron under Commodore Conner in the War with Mexico, Being a Synopsis of Its Services, 1846–1847. Philadelphia, 1896.

^*Crittenden, John J. The Life of John J. Crittenden, With Selections from his Correspondence and Speeches. Edited by Mrs. Chapman Coleman. 2 vols. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1871.

Dillon, Lester R., Jr. American Artillery in the Mexican War 1846–1847. Austin, Tex.: Presidial Press, 1975.

^*DeVoto, Bernard. The Year of Decision, 1846. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943.

Dobie, J. Frank. Coronado’s Children. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1930.

^*Dufour, Charles L. The Mexican War, A Compact History, 1846–1848. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1968.

Dupuy, R. Ernest, and Trevor N. Dupuy. Military Heritage of America. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill, 1956.

Dyer, Brainard. Zachary Taylor. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1946.

^*Eliot, Charles W. Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man. New York: Macmillan Company, 1937.

^*Emory, Lt. Col. W. H. Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, 1848. Executive Document No. 41, 30th Cong, 1st sess, Washington, 1848. Reprinted by Arno Press in The United States Conquest of California, 1976.

Estergreen, Marion. The Real Kit Carson. Taos, N.M.: Kit Carson Memorial Foundation, 1955.

Ferguson, Henry N. The Port of Brownsville, A Maritime History of the Rio Grande Valley. Brownsville, Tex.: Springman-King Press, 1976.

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^*Freeman, Douglas Southall. R. E. Lee, vol. I. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949.

Frémont, John Charles. Narratives of Exploration and Adventure. New York, London, Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co, 1956.

^*French, Samuel Gibbs. Two Wars, An Autobiography. Nashville, Tennessee: The Confederate Veteran, 1901.

Frost, John. The History of Mexico and Its Wars. New Orleans: A. Hawkins, 1882.

Fry, J. Reese. A Life of Zachary Taylor, Comprising a Narrative of Events Connected with His Professional Career. Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliot & Co, 1848.

Fuller, John Douglas Pitts. The Movement for the Acquisition of All Mexico, 1846–1848. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1936.

^*Giddings, Luther. Sketches of the Campaign in Northern Mexico in Eighteen Hundred Forty-six and Seven. New York: George P. Putnam and Company, 1853.

^*Goetzmann, William H. Army Exploration in the American West, 1803–1863. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1959.

Grant, Ulysses Simpson. The Papers of U.S. Grant, vol. 1. Edited by John Y. Simon. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967.

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Gregg, Kate L. The Road to Santa Fe: The Journal and Diaries of George Champlin Sibley. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1952.

^*Griffin, John S. “A Doctor Comes to California,” San Francisco, California, Historical Society Quarterly, XXI, 3, 4, and XXII, 1, 1943. Reprinted by Arno Press in The United States Conquest of California, 1976.

Guild, Thelma S., and Harvey L. Carter. Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Hamilton, Holman. Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1951.

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Harlow, Neal. California Conquered: War and Peace on the Pacific, 1846–1850. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

^*Hawgood, John A., Ed. First and Last Consul: Thomas Oliver Larkin and the Americanization of California. Palo Alto, Calif.: Pacific Books, 1970.

Henry, Robert Selph. The Story of the Mexican War. New York: Frederick Unger, 1950.

^*Henry, William Seaton, Captain. Campaign Sketches of the War with Mexico. New York: Harper Bros., 1847. Reprinted by Arno Press, N.Y., 1973.

A History of the City of Baltimore, Its Men and Institutions. Published by the Baltimore American, 1902.

^*Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. Fifty Years in Camp and Field. Edited by W.A. Croffut. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909.

Howard, George W. The Monumental City, Its Past History and Present Resources. Baltimore: J.D. Ehlers & Co., 1873.

Hughes, John T. Doniphan’s Expedition, Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico. New York: Arno Press, 1973.

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James, Marquis. Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937.

—–. The Life of Andrew Jackson. Camden: Haddon House Craftsmen, Inc., 1938.

—–. The Raven: The Life Story of Sam Houston. Garden City, N.Y.: Blue Ribbon Books, 1929.

Johannsen, Robert W. To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Jones, Anson. Memoranda and Official Correspondence Relating to the Republic of Texas. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1859. Reprinted by Arno Press, New York, 1973.

^*Jones, Oakah L, Jr. Santa Anna. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1968.

Junior League of Washington. The City of Washington: An Illustrated History. Edited by Thomas Froncek. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

^*Kenly, John R. Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co, 1873.

Lavender, David. Bent’s Fort. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1954.

—–. Climax at Buena Vista: The American Campaigns in Northeastern Mexico, 1846–47. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1966.

Lens, Sidney. The Forging of the American Empire. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1971.

Lewis, Oscar. “California in 1846: Described in Letters from Thomas O. Larkin,” in The United States Conquest of California. New York: Arno Press, 1976.

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^*McClellan, George Brinton. The Mexican War Diary of General George B. McClellan. Edited by William Starr Myers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1917.

^*McCormac, Eugene I. James K. Polk: A Political Biography. New York: Russell and Russell, 1965.

McNierney, Michael, Ed. Taos 1847: The Revolt in Contemporary Accounts. Boulder, Colo.: Johnson Publishing Company, 1980.

Manning, William R. Early Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Mexico. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1916.

^*Meade, George. The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army, vol I. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913.

Meigs, William M. The Life of Thomas Hart Benton. Philadelphia and London: Lippincott Company, 1904.

The Mexican War and Its Heroes: Being a Complete History of the Mexican War, Embracing All the Operations under Generals Taylor and Scott, with a Biography of All the Officers. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambro, & Co, 1850.

Morgan, Robert J. A Whig Embattled: The Presidency Under John Tyler. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1954.

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Neal, William and William A. Century of Conflict, 1821–1913: Incidents in the Lives of William Neal and William A. Neal, Early Settlers in South Texas. Waco, Tex.: Texian Press, 1966.

^*Nevin, David. The Mexican War. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, Inc., 1978.

^*Nichols, Edward J. Zach Taylor’s Little Army. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1963.

Nichols, Roy Franklin. Franklin Pierce. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1931.

Nolan Jeanette Covert. Andrew Jackson. New York: Julian Messner, Inc. 1949.

Oliva, Leo E. Soldiers on the Santa Fe Trail. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967.

Oswandel, J. Jacob. Notes on the Mexican War, 1846–47–48. Philadelphia, 1885.

Parton, James. Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Mason Brothers, 1860. Reprinted by Johnson Reprint Corp., New York, 1967.

^*Pletcher, David M. The Diplomacy of Annexation: Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973.

Polk, James K. Polk: The Diary of a President, 1845–1849. Edited by Allan Nevins. London, New York and Toronto: Longmans Green and Company, 1929.

^*Price, Glenn W. Origins of the War with Mexico: The Polk-Stockton Intrigue. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1967.

Prucha, Francis Paul. The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783–1846. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1969.

^*Reid, Samuel C., Jr. The Scouting Expeditions of McCullough’s Texas Rangers. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1847. Reprinted, 1970.

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—–. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

^*Ripley, R.S. The War with Mexico. 2 vols. New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. (Originally published 1849.)

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Rives, George L. The United States and Mexico. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913. Reprinted by Kraus Reprint Co., New York, N.Y., 1969. 2 vols.

Robertson, Brian. Wild Horse Desert: The Heritage of South Texas. Edinburg, Tex.: New Santander Press, 1985.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Thomas Hart Benton. Boston and New York: Houghton and Mifflin Co., 1886.

^*Santa Anna, Antonio López de. The Eagle: The Autobiography of Santa Anna. Edited by Ann Fears Crawford. Austin, Tex.: Pemberton Press, 1967.

^*Schroeder, John H. Mr. Polk’s War: American Opposition and Dissent, 1846–1848. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973.

^*Scott, Winfield. The Memoirs of Lieut-Gen Winfield Scott., LLD. 2 vols. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1864.

Sears, Louis Martin. A History of American Foreign Relations. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1927.

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^*Sellers, Charles. James K. Polk, Continentalist, 1843–1846. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.

^*Semmes, Raphael, Lieutenant, USN. Service Afloat and Ashore During the Mexican War. Cincinnati: Wm. H. Moore, 1851.

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Sides, Joseph C. Fort Brown Historical. San Antonio, Tex.: Naylor Company, 1942.

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^*Smith, E. Kirby. To Mexico with Scott: Letters of Ephraim Kirby Smith to His Wife. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1917.

Smith, Elbert B. Magnificent Missourian; The Life of Thomas Hart Benton. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1958.

Smith, George Winston, and Charles Judah. Chronicles of the Gringos: The U.S. Army in the Mexican War, 1846–1848. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1968.

Smith, Justin H. The Annexation of Texas. New York: AMS Press, 1971. (Reprint from the edition of 1911, New York.)

^*—–. The War with Mexico. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1963. (Originally published by the Macmillan Company, 1919.)

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^*Webb, Walter Prescott. The Texas Rangers in the Mexican War. Austin, Tex.: Jenkins Garrett Press, 1975.

^*Wilcox, General Cadmus M. History of the Mexican War. Washington, D.C.: Church News Publishing Co., 1892.

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PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS

Ames, George W., Jr. “Gillespie and the Conquest of California,” California Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 17 (2), 1938, pp. 123–40.

—–. “Gillespie and the Conquest of California,” California Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 17 (4), 1938, pp. 325–50.

Baltimore American, May 2, 27, 28, 29, 30, June 1, 1844. Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore.

The Battery, Headquarters, Army of Occupation, Camp near Fort Brown, Texas, May 17, 1846.

Castel, Albert. “Winfield Scott, Part II,” American History Illustrated, July 1981.

Cooling, Benjamin Franklin. “Lew Wallace and Gideon Pillow: Enigmas and Variations on an American Military Theme,” Lincoln Herald, vol. 84, no. 2 (Summer 1981).

“The Diary and Letters of William P. Rogers, 1846–1862” (edited by Eleanor Damon Pace), Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 4 (April 1929), pp. 259–85.

“General Jackson on Annexation,” Niles’ National Register, Baltimore, June 15, 1844.

“George Washington Trahern: Texas Cowboy Soldier from Mier to Buena Vista” (edited by A. Russell Buchanan), Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 63, July 1954, pp. 60–90.

Ferguson, Henry N. “The Great Western,” Westways, December 1970.

Houston, Donald E. “The Role of Artillery in the Mexican War,” Journal of the West, vol. II, no. 2 (April 1972), pp. 273–84.

Hussey, John A. “The Origin of the Gillespie Mission,” California Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 19 (1).

“Intercession of Gen. Jackson on Behalf of Texan Prisoners in Mexico,” Nashville Union, April 17, 1844.

Irey, Thomas R. “Soldiering, Suffering, and Dying in the Mexican War,” Journal of the West, vol. 11, no. 2 (April 1972), pp. 285–98.

Oates, Stephen B. “Los Diablos Tejanos: The Texas Rangers in the Mexican War,” Journal of the West, vol. 11, no. 2 (April 1972), pp. 487–504.

Payne, Darwin. “Camp Life in the Army of Occupation: Corpus Christi, July 1845 to March 1846,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 63, July 1954.

Reilly, Tom. “Jane McManus Storms: Letters from the Mexican War,” 1846–1848,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 85, July 1981.

Remini, Robert V. “Texas Must Be Ours,” American Heritage, February-March 1986.

Republic of the Rio Grande: And Friend of the People, vol. 1, no. 6. City of Matamoros, June 23, 1846.

Stenberg, Richard R. “Further Letters of Archibald H. Gillespie,” California Historical Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3 (1939), pp. 217–28.

Stonesifer, Roy P., Jr. “Gideon Pillow: A Study in Egotism,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4 (Winter 1966).

Wallace, Edward S. “General William Jennings Worth and Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 54, October 1950, pp. 159–68.

Washington Globe, April 28, May 24, 28, 29, 30, June 4, 6, 1844.

Woodward, Arthur. “The Great Western … An Amazon Who Made History,” Arizona Pioneers Historical Society. “Worth Letters,” New York Times, July 16, 1916.

^*An asterisk denotes works of special value to this book, for background, eyewitness information or perspective.