Romantic Passages in Southwestern History: Including Orations, Sketches, and Essays (Classic Reprint) - Livres de poche

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About half this volume has been published before, in isolated portions, in pamphlets or periodicals. The author has been grat tified that his researches in Southwestern History have been recognised as valuable, by Bancroft, Theodore Irving, Simms, and Pickett, in their more capacious and dignified performances. This has induced him to revive his articles as they were originally produced, with the addition of other and more copious sketches, elucidating our early history. These were written, for incidental purposes, while preparing a more elaborate work yet to be pub lished, but they may serve, in their present form, to gratify the general reader better than in a more staid and regular connection.

With these explanations, the author submits this volume, as an humble guide-book to an almost uncultured territory, in which the Historian, the Novelist, and the Poet may find the richest materials and incentives for the highest exercise of their respec tive vocations.

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