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 Texas
Navy Commodore Edwin W. Moore’s
To the People of
Texas
Edited with an introduction
by Jonathan Jordon
The William P.
Clements Center for Southwest Studies and DeGolyer
Library, Southern Methodist University announce a
publication in the Library of Texas Series edited by
Benjamin H. Johnson and Russell Martin
Within
four years of assuming his post, the Texas Republic’s
greatest naval commander, Commodore Edwin Ward Moore
became the mortal enemy of its greatest army commander,
President Sam Houston. The hatred that burned between
them would fuel a fifteen-year war of charges, insults,
and invitations
to duel that would corrupt the reputations of both Texas
patriots before the U.S. Senate, the Texas Congress, and
the peoples of two republics. The Clements Center and
the DeGolyer Library are pleased to announce the
upcoming publication of the latest volume in the Library
of Texas Series, Commodore Edwin W. Moore’s To the
People of Texas: An Appeal in the Vindication of his
Conduct of the Navy, edited by Jonathan W. Jordan.
First published in 1843 and among the rarest Texas
imprints — only a handful are known in institutional
collections — this reprint of Commodore Moore’s
manifesto has great historical value and deserves a
wider audience.
Jonathan Jordan is the
author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers,
Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the
Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
(NAL Caliber, April 2011 and the award-winning book
Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico,
and the Shaping of the American West (Potomac Books
2007).
Our edition is handsomely designed by Bradley
Hutchinson, printed on acid-free paper, and
indexed. We have printed 500 copies, of which 450 are
for sale. Our edition cannot be purchased through
retail bookshops. The Library
of Texas is a series of new editions of important
firsthand accounts of nineteenth-century Texas,
initiated to fill a need for well-indexed and high
quality editions of classic books. With full
introductions written by noted scholars, the books are
produced to high typographic standards, are uniform in
size, yet distinctive in design, printed on acid-free
paper and bound in attractive, enduring materials.
Image left: Texas President Sam Houston. Courtesy of
the Texas State Library and Archives.
Image right: Commodore Edwin Moore. Courtesy of the
National Archives and Record Administration.
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here for pdf. order form.
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