This review published in “Publications of the Newberry Library”, accessed through GoogleBooks.
A narrative of a series of extraordinary personal
adventures, which, according to the preface of the
work, was recounted to the author by Mr. Lafferty
himself. It is probably fictitious, but with most of the
important features of the historical setting correct. Mr.
Lafferty is represented as visiting Texas at intervals from
1818-1832, and thereafter living in Arkansas until 1855,
when he returned to Texas to remain. The visits are so
timed as to give him a share in both of Long’s two
expeditions, the Fredonian war, and the battle of Velasco.
The intervening periods are rilled in with Indian fighting,
the details consisting of desperate encounters, narrow
escapes, and fearful experiences in captivity.
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