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- catalog abstract "This striking full-color collection of over 160 paintings, with text by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann, is a book of uncommon visual pleasure and historical importance. Sam Chamberlain was a fascinating character, a writer, artist, and adventurer whose ribald life story rivals those of Jack Crabb in Little Big Man and Harry Flashman in the Flashman novels. Private Sam Chamberlain was the most prolific artist of the war with Mexico of 1846-1848. In hundreds of lively watercolors, he provided upclose views of the battles, marches, atrocities, massacres, seductions, and tall tales of the Mexican War. No official account has ever matched the immediacy of his portrayals - in watercolor and in prose - of this critical event in the history of the U.S. and Mexico. This widely researched volume marks a major event in Mexican War history, and provides insight into the colorful imagination of one of that war's most notable rogues. Based largely on the collection of 147 watercolors now owned by the San Jacinto Museum of History, the book reproduces these treasures for the first time in color. Readers will greatly enjoy Sam Chamberlain's vivid, occasionally humorous paintings, and will be fascinated by the story of his life and how he came to produce these wonderful scenes. The book represents an intriguing detective story that has not yielded the final word on the elusive Chamberlain, his adventures, and the whereabouts of his other works. This handsome volume includes over 160 pictures, maps, detailed picture captions, and quotes from Chamberlain's original manuscript, "My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue." Also included is an extensive introduction detailing Sam Chamberlain's life as a hero in both the Mexican and Civil wars.".
- catalog contributor b6163113.
- catalog contributor b6163114.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Private Sam Chamberlain was the most prolific artist of the war with Mexico of 1846-1848. In hundreds of lively watercolors, he provided upclose views of the battles, marches, atrocities, massacres, seductions, and tall tales of the Mexican War. No official account has ever matched the immediacy of his portrayals - in watercolor and in prose - of this critical event in the history of the U.S. and Mexico.".
- catalog description "Readers will greatly enjoy Sam Chamberlain's vivid, occasionally humorous paintings, and will be fascinated by the story of his life and how he came to produce these wonderful scenes. The book represents an intriguing detective story that has not yielded the final word on the elusive Chamberlain, his adventures, and the whereabouts of his other works.".
- catalog description "This handsome volume includes over 160 pictures, maps, detailed picture captions, and quotes from Chamberlain's original manuscript, "My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue." Also included is an extensive introduction detailing Sam Chamberlain's life as a hero in both the Mexican and Civil wars.".
- catalog description "This striking full-color collection of over 160 paintings, with text by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann, is a book of uncommon visual pleasure and historical importance. Sam Chamberlain was a fascinating character, a writer, artist, and adventurer whose ribald life story rivals those of Jack Crabb in Little Big Man and Harry Flashman in the Flashman novels.".
- catalog description "This widely researched volume marks a major event in Mexican War history, and provides insight into the colorful imagination of one of that war's most notable rogues. Based largely on the collection of 147 watercolors now owned by the San Jacinto Museum of History, the book reproduces these treasures for the first time in color.".
- catalog extent "xii, 207 p. (some folded) :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War.".
- catalog identifier "0876111312".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin : Published for the San Jacinto Museum of History by the Texas State Historical Association,".
- catalog relation "Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.62 20".
- catalog subject "Chamberlain, Samuel E. (Samuel Emery), 1829-1908 Art Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "E415.2.A78 G64 1993".
- catalog subject "Mexican War, 1846-1848 Art and the war Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Painting, Modern 19th century Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Painting, Modern 19th century United States Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "San Jacinto Museum of History Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Watercolor painting, American Catalogs.".
- catalog title "Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War : the San Jacinto Museum of History paintings / by William H. Goetzmann.".
- catalog type "Catalogs. fast".
- catalog type "text".