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Show ae Bare de ks “ea * Ce ” Oe Re Ap tr . TE | ied Se een ~*. co 4 © a e aay ere” PeTn ae Ea aa DAO TES Pe a (Sad Ft 2 deeds BIBLIOGRAPHY Bancroft, Hubert Bustamante, Carlos Howe, History M. Apuntes Gregg, Dr. Josiah Prince, L. Bradford Read, Benj. M. Santa Fé Archives Arizona cisco, 1889. Davis, W. W. H. Kendall, George W. of El para la CHAPTER and New Historia de Mexico, Santa San Ana, FranMexico, 1845; Diario de Mezico, 1841-43; El Gabinete Mexicano, Mexico, 1839-41, Invasion de los AngloAmericanos. Gringo, New York, 1856. Commerce of the Prairies, New York, 1844. Texas-Santa Fé Expedition, New York, 1844. vols. Historical Sketches, New York, 1883. Historia Ilustrada, ete., Santa Fé, N. M., 1911. Washi Smithsonian, ngton, D. C. 2 III THE Texas-Santa F% EXPEDITION — CAPTURE OF THE TEXANS WHO ARE SENT TO THE City or Mexico — MuRDER OF Don ANTONIO Jost CHavez — Sniveny’s Raw — Cou. WARFIE LD ATTACKS Town or Mora — Dernat or VANGUARD OF ARMIJO ’S ARMY ON THE ARKANSAS — CAPTAIN COOKE DISARMS THE TEXANS — CLOSING oF Ports OF ENTRY BY GENERAL Santa ANA N 1841 General Mirabeau B. Lamar was holding the office of president of the republic of Texas. The Texans claimed, as the western boundary of the Lone Star Republic, the Rio Grande. Yet, 80 isolated were the settlements east of that stream, the new eT * EXPEDITION LJ the republic should exercise its authority over the length and breadth of her domain, when the citizens of her farthest borders should be brought into the common fold, and as the Texans believed, and as is claimed by the his- ‘orian of the Texas-Santa Fé expedition, with the full belief in the aed [nd ok et * - are oe Pat: pe Pi * bi we. J b ° Ls bd &.6.~-E- Fe ’ republic had never been able to exercise jurisdiction over a people The time had now really within her limits. THE TEXAS-SANTA Ff arrived, so thought the rulers of Texas, when of i e ara ee Oe at Pe Pe ee 2. * a ee ot ’ ee *¢- 2% ah et eet ee ,a Ce ak ee ile me ee teadiness and willingness of the inhabitants Texas-Santa Fé Expedition was organized. destined New Mexican point, should the inhabitants of New Mexico, the On its arrival at the really manifest a disposition o declare their full allegiance.to Texas, the flag of the single-star "ePublic was to be raised over the old palace; but if not, the Texan mmissioners were Burro merely to make such arrangements with the authorities as would best tend to the opening of trade, and then retire. This approx imately tated by covers the Texan side of the story as re- the historian,®° Kendall, an American citizen, who accom- G corge W., Narrative F -Santa FéF Expedition, p. 16: ‘ °° Kendall : of the Texas-Santa ; ‘The j ea, which has obtained credence to some extent in the United States, |