Brown, William Horace. Glory seekers: the romance of would-be founders of empire in the early days of the Southwest. **$1.50. McClurg.
These true stories which read like romance are mainly of men who “standing on the rugged confines of civilization in America at an early period of our national life, sought distinction by attempting to hitch their wagons to the star of empire.” Here are recorded Wilkinson’s “treasonable enterprise,” “Citizen” Genet’s undertakings, disgrace of Senator Blount, Burr’s arrest, Philip Nolan’s expedition to Texas, the Magee expedition to Texas and Mexico and other glory-seekers’ efforts to invade the Southland.
“The book is well done and is interesting.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 338. S. ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Brown narrates the facts fairly enough, but still with that due regard for the picturesque which the subject seems to demand.”
+ Critic. 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 160w.
“The stories are worth re-telling, and the author tells them most interestingly.”
+ Dial. 40: 393. Je. 16, ’06. 390w. N. Y. Times. 11: 284. Ap. 28, ’06. 320w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 200w.
“He has also sacrificed critical caution to the desire to be entertaining, and his work is further marred by a flippancy of style strangely out of keeping with the theme and in itself conducing to weaken any claim his book may have to serious consideration.”