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In Fall 1841, a band of roughly 300 Texans straggled out of the Staked Plains into New Mexico. They had intended to claim everything east of the Rio Grande for Texas. Instead, they were captured and sent south to El Paso del Norte, then on to Mexico City. The largest group of prisoners, which included journalist George Wilkins Kendall, was escorted to El Paso by Captain Damasio Salazar. Five prisoners died on that trek. Kendall would later write a book describing the experience, a book which accused Salazar of food deprivation, mutilation, and murder, and fed the glowing coals that would become the Mexican-American War. But what really happened on the way to El Paso? The Texian Prisoners tells the story through the eyes of Kendall's friend George Van Ness, a lawyer burdened with the ability to see his enemy's point of view, and asks us to consider the possibility that Kendall's report was not unbiased. A historically accurate retelling of Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk, this fictional memoir will make you question everything you thought you knew about Texas, New Mexico, and the boundary between them.

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"""A well-researched, fair, and balanced account of a historical event which had serious consequences for the history of Texas, the USA, and their relationship with Mexico. Vividly and movingly depicted, this is not a dry history text or a fanciful fictionalization of the events, but a way to bring true research and historical facts to life. A great addition to the Old New Mexico series."" - Olga N��ez Miret, Author of The Man Who Never Was"

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