DESHIELDS, JAMES T.

TALL MEN WITH LONG RIFLES. THE GLAMOROUS STORY

      1935 DESHIELDS, JAMES T. TALL MEN WITH LONG RIFLES. THE GLAMOROUS STORY OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION, AS TOLD BY CAPTAIN CREED TAYLOR, WHO FOUGHT IN THAT HEROIC STRUGGLE FROM GONZALES TO SAN JACINTO. San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1935. First edition. Limited to 500 copies, signed by the author. 8vo. Cloth, xiv [2], 240 pp., frontis., foreword, prelude, illustrated, footnotes. The story of the Texas Revolution as written by the author is the only complete personal narrative that has come down until 1935. The Republic of Texas, with a pioneer community of approximately thirty thousand people, carried on a struggle against a powerful nation of eight million souls, until final triumph. Page edges uniformily browned, else very good copy.