Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History [SOLD]

GREAT RIVER: The Rio Grande in North American History

Author: Paul Horgan

Publisher: Rinehart & Company, Inc. New York, Toronto

Hardback, first edition, two volumes, 1954, 1020 pages. Very good condition with previous owner’s name (Bishop) written on blank inner page in both volumes.

Volume One: Indians and Spain

Volume Two: Mexico and the United States

“Paul Horgan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning two volume work, Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History represents 14 years of work and covers all of the lands touching the Rio Grande and the people who came to them.  Since Horgan is a distinguished writer as well as an historian, his work, like the historical writing of Bernard DeVoto, has qualities of literature, and has been praised as a masterpiece of American historical writing.”  New Mexico Magazine February 1975