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2 Collector's Books

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2 Collector's Books
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1) Comanche Bondage by Carl Coke Rister. Softcover. 210 pages. 1955, 1989. 5-1/2" x 8". Very good condition. In Comanche Bondage the distinguished southwestern historian Carl Coke Rister has written the history of the Dolores enterprise, drawing on Beale's journals and other documents, and including reports of the survivors. Leaving Dolores in the wake of news about the Alamo and Goliad disasters, the Horn family and their neighbors the Harrises headed toward Matamoras. They never arrived there. Later a broken Sarah Ann Horn told the horrifying story of the murder of the men and of the years of captivity she and Mrs. Harris and their children endured at the hands of the Comanches. Rister has edited and annotated her 1839 narrative, which complements and extends his account of Beales's folly. 2) Black Hawk edited by Donald Jackson. Softcover. 177 pages. 1955, 1971. good condition. 5-1/2" x 8". This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheeked old Sauk warrior who lived under four flags while