Mexican-American War
By: Kelly King Howes ; Julie L. Carnagie, project editor.
Contributors: Carnagie, Julie.
Publisher: UXL
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Subjects: Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Juvenile literature.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Mexican War, 1846-1848.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: A comprehensive overview of the Mexican-American War, including biographies and full or excerpted memoirs, speeches, and other source documents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxi-xxxiii) and index.
Table of contents: title: Almanac. The United States and Mexico: close neighbors with different goals; title: The fight for Texas independence; title: Two nations on the brink of war; title: The war begins in northern Mexico and even further west; title: The conquest of Mexico City; title: Peace, but at what cost?; title: Biographies. John Fremont; title: Sam Houston; title: Stephen Watts Kearny; title: Jose Antonio Navarro; title: James K. Polk; title: The San Patricio Battalion; title: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna; title: Winfield Scott; title: Zachary Taylor; title: Nicholas Trist.