144 pp. Illustrated with 8 wood-engraved vignettes including one on the title page; wood-engraved frontispiece; 3 wood-engraved map plans, including Santa Fé, Battle of Brazito, and Battle of Sacramento. (8vo), original salmon printed wrappers, previously bound, covers now lacking.

First published in 1847 in a very small edition, of which only a few copies are known; this undated edition was likely published after 1854. "Doniphan's and Kearney's conquests gave the United States its claim to New Mexico and Arizona, finally acquired by the Gadsen Purchase" (Howes). The book recounts "the adventures of the First Regiment of Missouri Cavalry in New Mexico and Chihuahua." (Wagner-Camp). Howes H769; Streeter Sale 165; Wagner-Camp 134:6.