Lachlan Allan MacLean drawings 1846-1847

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Hughes, John Taylor, 1817-1862. Lachlan Allan MacLean drawings 1846-1847

Lachlan Allan MacLean drawings 1846-1847

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/308673331

The collection consists of eleven pen-and-ink drawings depicting military life as seen through the eyes of volunteer soldier Lachlan Allan MacLean. These drawings are unique in that they are a visual narrative of one of the notable and colorful facets of the Mexican War (1846-1848). The drawings include an informal portrait of Private John W.H. Patton after battle; the head of a black tailed deer; a wayside grave with a cross; a carreta (cart); Mexicans carrying water in a large wooden bucket; Bent's Fort; a Mexican woodman mounted on a burro; a soldier pulling a mule; a Mexican monument; a plan of the defenses of Santa Rosalia, Chihuahua; and a fountain at Chihuahua.

.25 linear ft.

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