The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott
American Exploration and Travel Series
Published by: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
308 Pages | 6 x 9 | 35 b&w illus., 2 maps
$24.95
$32.95
Edited by Mark L. Gardner and Marc Simmons
Published by: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
308 Pages | 6 x 9 | 35 b&w illus., 2 maps
$24.95
$32.95
When General Stephen Watts Kearny’s Army of the West marched into Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 18, 1846, Richard Smith Elliott, a young Missouri volunteer, was included in its ranks. In addition to Lieutenant Elliott’s duties in the Laclede Rangers, he served as a regular correspondent to the St. Louis Reveille. An entertaining and educated observer, Elliott provided readers back home with an account of the grueling march over the famous Santa Fe Trail, the triumphant entry of the army into Santa Fe, the U.S. occupation of New Mexico, and the volunteers’ eventual return to St. Louis.
Noted southwestern scholars Mark L. Gardner and Marc Simmons present here, for the first time, all of Elliott’s letters published in the Reveille under his nom-de-plume, John Brown, using passages from his autobiography for the same period to fill in a break resulting from a few missing letters. Also included are Elliott’s literary sketches, drawn from his Mexican War experiences and the people he met and served with.
Mark L. Gardner is the coeditor if The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott (University of Oklahoma Press). A consultant to the National Park Service, he has written interpretive booklets for both Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and Washita Battlefield National Historic Site.
Historian Marc Simmons is a founder and the first president of the Santa Fe Trail Association. His forty-nine books include six about the Trail and The Last Conquistador: Juan de Oñate and the Settling of the Far Southwest.
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