Juan Davis Bradburn: A Reappraisal of the Mexican Commander of Anahuac

by Margaret Swett Henson

Book Overview

New in paperback Margaret Swett Henson examines the actions of John Davis Bradburn, an American-born man whose early involvement in filibustering brought him to the Mexican state of Coahuila-Texas and won him Mexican citizenship in the Mexican army. Although he was branded as an arrogant, unprincipled tyrant by Anglo Texans of his time and later historians for his 1832 arrest of William Barret Travis, Henson concludes that Bradburn was simply doing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603443010
• ISBN13: 9781603443012
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"