This remarkable collection of letters written by a U.S. Army officer's wife on the South Texas frontier is among the most significant published in recent years. Helen Chapman and her husband William, the first quartermaster at Fort Brown, were founding citizens of Brownsville, Texas. She commented on social conditions along the Rio Grande, expressing forthright opinions on a wide range of topics.Readers interested in the history of the military, Texas and the Southwest, women and minorities, and domestic life on the ...
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This remarkable collection of letters written by a U.S. Army officer's wife on the South Texas frontier is among the most significant published in recent years. Helen Chapman and her husband William, the first quartermaster at Fort Brown, were founding citizens of Brownsville, Texas. She commented on social conditions along the Rio Grande, expressing forthright opinions on a wide range of topics.Readers interested in the history of the military, Texas and the Southwest, women and minorities, and domestic life on the frontier will find this an invaluable addition to the literature of the American experience.
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Very Good + in Very Good + jacket. Maroon cloth over boards with gilt particulars in gilt rule to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has scuffing to corner at lower edge, but is otherwise clean and unmarked. Boards are clean with bumping to corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean and bright with creasing to edges, corners and ends of spine.
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