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Colonel Edward Stiff. The Texan Emigrant:...
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Colonel Edward Stiff. The Texan Emigrant: Being a Narration of the Adventures of the Author in Texas, and a Description of the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, Towns, Bays, Harbors, Rivers, Institutions, and Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of that Country; Together with the Principal Incidents of Fifteen Years Revolution in Mexico: and Embracing a Condensed Statement of Interesting Events in Texas, from the First European Settlement in 1692, Down to the Year 1840. Cincinnati: Published by George Conclin, 1840.FIRST EDITION. 12mo. 367 pages. With engraved folding map titled "Texas," Cincinnati: Published by George Conclin; and two engraved views ("View of Galveston City and Bay" and "Battle of San Jacinto"). Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered.
Scarce with original map and engravings.
Jenkins writes, "One of the most controversial guide books written by a visitor to early Texas... Stiff's guide is most useful for the light it sheds on such Texas settlements as Houston, which he states consisted of 382 houses and a population of three thousand, of which only about forty were women. He deprecates the moral character of the citizens, points out that there were 65 places of business, 47 of which were saloons or gambling houses... Stiff's viewpoint throughout the book is decidedly pro-Mexican. He castigates the Texas Revolution as having been fought by opportunists who 'rebel first and find out the reason afterwards.'"
Likewise, Streeter writes, "Here conventional accounts of the physical features of Texas and of its cities and towns are interspersed with gossipy comments on various named individuals and on life in Texas in general, making it quite an entertaining book."
The map with original outline coloring, features Texas in its small, early Republic configuration, without the Panhandle and with the Nueces River as the southwestern boundary.
Condition: Some intermittent foxing and staining to the text. The map exhibits some moderate staining and offsetting.
References: Clark III-244; Graff 3989; Howes S-998; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 199; Rader 2983; Raines pp. 195-196; Sabin 91727; Streeter 1367.
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2023 December 2 The Ted Lusher Texas History Collection, Part One Signature® Auction #6281 (go to Auction Home page)
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