Hardcover Cloth 235 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition Date: 2007. Handsome blue boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few stains and wrinkles. HPB pricetag on cover of dust jacket. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Could the British have stopped Manifest Destiny in its tracks in 1836?A Scottish doctor named James Grant was the agent who tried to make it happen, and Texas was the stage on which the secret battle was fought.On the eve of the Texas uprising, only two things stood in the way of American ambitions to reach the Pacific Ocean: the British claim to the Oregon country and the vast but sparsely populated Mexican province of Texas. Britain was therefore almost as concerned with the outcome of the Texians' war as Mexico was.At a crucial point when Texians had to decide whether to seek rights within the Federal Republic of Mexico or to secede and ally with the United States, James Grant led a band of followers toward Mexico, with the intent of forming a state within that nation. His efforts met enduring accusations that he fatally weakened the Alamo by stripping it of men, ammunition, and medical supplies. When Grant was killed on the ill-fated Matamoros expedition, British hopes of blocking the ...

TAMU Press, Date: 2007-01-05. Hardcover. Good. 2007. TAMU Press ISBN 1585445657 9781585445653 [US]

ISBN10: 1585445657, ISBN13: 9781585445653, [publisher: Texas A & M University Press, College Station] Hardcover First Edition x, 235 pages. Hardbound in fine condition in very good dust jacket.
[Richmond, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]
Show/Hide image

Texas A&M University Press 2007 Hardcover 1585445657. First edition. Hard cover published by Texas A&M Univ. Press in 2007. Dark blue covers with silver lettering on spine. Corners of covers have slight wear. Top edge of pages has slight smudging. DJ has slight scuffing on back, and is in very good condition.; Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest; 9.40 X 6 X 1 inches; 248 pages.

ISBN10: 1585445657, ISBN13: 9781585445653, [publisher: Texas A&M University Press] Hardcover First Edition First edition. Hard cover published by Texas A&M Univ. Press in 2007. Dark blue covers with silver lettering on spine. Corners of covers have slight wear. Top edge of pages has slight smudging. DJ has slight scuffing on back, and is in very good condition.; Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest; 9.40 X 6 X 1 inches; 248 pages
[Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

Texas A & M University Press, College Station.. As New in As New dust jacket. Date: 2007. First Edition. hardcover with dustjacket. 1585445657 . No names or markings. ; Standard Book Size.; 235 pages . 2007. Texas A & M University Press, College Station. ISBN 1585445657 9781585445653 [US]

Texas A&M University Press, Date: 2007-01-05. Hardcover. Used:Good. 2007. Texas A&M University Press ISBN 1585445657 9781585445653 [US]

ISBN10: 1585445657, ISBN13: 9781585445653, [publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr] Hardcover 248 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 1585445657, ISBN13: 9781585445653, [publisher: Texas A&M University Press] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.05
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]