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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ors. He was finally released from the wretched prison in Mexico into which he was cast with others who had not succumbed to the desert, or to the brutality of Armijo, at the request of the United States Minister, Waddy Thompson, whose Recollections of Mexico (1846) mentions this release of Kendall and his companions in misery, as well as the release of the prisoners taken by the Mexicans at Mier in 1842. The capture, sufferings, and release of these latter unfortunates are told by William Preston Stapp in his book The prisoners of Perote (1845). It is interesting to note that Waddy Thompson was no longer a United States official when he requested the freedom of the captives; General Santa Anna granted the request as a personal favour. Thompson gives an estimate of Santa Anna's character which is not so black as the usual descriptions. Kendall printed a map, which he compiled, to give such information as was possible of the wilderness the caravan had struggled through, and in th
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
d Mountain, 512, 514, 515 Springfield Republican, 310 Spring journey in California, a, 165 Spring notes from Tennessee, 165 Spurrier, John, 430 Squatter sovereignty, 279 Squier, E. G., 136 Squirrel Inn, 274 Stael, Madame de, 453 Standard Dictionary, 480 Standard of usage in English, the, 475 Stanley, Henry M., 163, 334 Stansbury, Capt., Howard, 150, 151 Stanton, Edwin M., 349 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 344 Stanton, Robert B., 158 Stanzas for music, 46 Stapp, William Preston, 133 Star (Kansas City), 334 Starr, Frances, 281 Star Spangled banner, the, 494, 495, 496, 498 State, the, 361 Statement of New principles on the Subject of political economy, 434 Slate records (N. C.), 176 States of Central America, the, 136 Statistical account of Connecticut, 432 Statistical annals, 432 Statistical, political and historical account of the United States, 432 Statistical view of Maine, 432 Statistics and economics, 442 Statistics and s