The Free Lances

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Joaquín Sorolla, Frederic Remington and David Roberts. Texas and Mexico in the 1840s: adventurers, filibusters and a war that neither government quite admits to, seen by an Irish officer who fought in it. Mayne Reid served in the Mexican war, was wounded at Chapultepec, and wrote his novels from the ground he had crossed. The politics are hot an...