(TEXAS) Ehrenberg Hermann Texas und seine Revolution

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(TEXAS.) Ehrenberg, Hermann. Texas und seine Revolution. 8vo, contemporary cloth with gilt spine title, minor wear; related early clipping mounted on front pastedown, minor foxing; 1895 owner's signature on front free endpaper. Leipzig, 1843

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first edition. Ehrenberg was a young German immigrant who fought in the Texas Revolution as a member of the New Orleans Grays; he was one of the few survivors of the Goliad massacre. An important surveyor of the frontier Southwest, he later founded Ehrenberg, AZ, and was killed by Indians in 1866. "One of the earliest German accounts of Texas, this is also an important source work on the events of the Texas Revolution"--Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 54. Clark, Old South III:36; Graff 1228; Howes E83 ("aa"); Sabin 22072n; Streeter, Texas 1454.