ISBN 0-87611-131-2 (cloth), -133-9 (limited). 9 x 12 in., 388 pp. 160 color illustrations, maps, index. Cloth, $49.95 TSHA Member's price, $42.46 Limited edition, $150.00 TSHA Member's price, $127.50
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The Chamberlain publications were funded by grants from the Summerlee Foundation, the Summerfield G. Roberts Foundation, and the Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation of Dallas.

 This striking full-color collection of over 160 paintings, with text by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann, is a book of uncommon visual pleasure and historical importance. Sam Chamberlain was a fascinating character, a writer, artist, and adventurer whose ribald life story rivals that of Jack Crabb in Little Big Man.

Private Sam Chamberlain was the most prolific artist of the 1846-1847 war with Mexico. In hundreds of lively watercolors, he provided upclose views of the battles, marches, atrocities, massacres, seductions, and tall tales of the Mexican War. No official account has ever matched the immediacy of his portayals - in watercolor and in prose - of this critical event in the history of the United States and Mexico.

Based largely on the collection of 147 watercolors now owned by the San Jacinto Museum of History, the book reproduces these treasures for the first time in color.

"Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War is an important book. The reproductions of Chamberlain's paintings by themselves constitute a significant contribution--not only to the record of the war itself, but also to the perception of the war. There is no other collection of such impressive dimension that reflects the experiences of a common volunteer soldier."

-Robert W. Johannsen
author of To the Halls of the Montezumas:
The Mexican War in the American Imagination

"What the Bayeux Tapestry is to the Norman Conquest, Sam Chamberlain's watercolor paintings are to the Mexican War. ... Boastful, cynical, sardonic and celebratory, these paintings are the triumph of a rough-edged American master."

--New York Times

THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, ILLUSTRATED
By George Wilkins Kendall. With a new introduction by Ron Tyler

Carl Nebel, The Battle of Palo Alto. From George Wilkins Kendall, The War between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated.

ISBN 0-87611-138-X (cloth), -147-0 (limited). 17 1/2 x 24 in., 100 pp. 12 colored lithographs, introduction. Cloth, $75.00 TSHA Member's price, $63.75 Limited edition, signed and with extra set of plates, $295.00s TSHA Member's price, $250.75

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Publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the Summerfield G. Roberts Foundation of Dallas.

Originally published in 1851, this was the most beautiful nineteenth-century publication relating to the early history of Texas. Ron Tyler's new introduction to this facsimile edition provides the context for Kendall's narrative of the war, illustrated with Carl Nebel's beautiful hand-colored lithographs of the most important battles of the war, beginning with the Battle of Palo Alto, which took place on Texas soil.

The limited edition, in a cloth tray case with leather spine, is signed by Ron Tyler and bound in specially selected cloth with a leather spine label and includes an extra set of the twelve color plates suitable for framing.