THE NARRATIVE OF ROBERT HANCOCK HUNTER: DESCRIBING IN HIS OWN MANNER HIS ARRIVAL TO TEXAS IN 1822 & HIS PARTICIPATION IN EVENTS OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION….

Austin:  The Encino Press, 1966.  vii,27pp.  Introduction by William D. Wittliff.  Brown cloth spine with tan illustrated paper covers over boards.  Illustration of Hunter by Witliff on the front cover and as a frontispiece.  First edition thus, limited to 640 numbered copies.  Laid-in is a letter to Lon Tinkle, former Dallas Morning News book editor, from Bill Wittliff, the owner The Encino Press. Hand written on Press letterhead it reads in part: “Dear Lon,…please consider this copy a member of your own library….I look forward to your essay on Mr. Dobie; I shall take pride in publishing it….Bill” Fine copy in its original acetate dust wrapper, also fine.  Jenkins, BTB 100:  “This is the most vivid of all recollections of the Texas Revolution.  Carlos Castenada called it ‘the best account of the San Jacinto campaign left by a veteran, an indispensable source.’”  J. Frank Dobie:  “Hunter has left some of the most revealing and lifelike word pictures of the revolution to be found in all Texas literature.” Hunter tells of his arrival in 1822 and his participation in events of Texas Revolution, including the Grass Fight, leading to the Battle of San Jacinto. An excellent copy with a superb association.