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This book relates the role that Hood's Texas Brigade had in the American Civil War. The author, in compiling this book made use of the primary and secondary published sources concerning Hood's Texas Brigade known to exist. Extensive use was made of unpublished material also. The Brigade was primarily a Texas unit comprised of three Lone Star regiments throughout the war, several other non-Texas organizations were assigned to or supported the Texans. The author hopes this book will help to allay fears that the Brigade will be forgotten. -- Amazon.com.

"Our book deals with the work of the [Kelley-Roosevelt-Field museum] expedition in French Indo-China and the first part of it with the division of the expedition which specialized specializedin collecting birds, small mammals, and reptiles in the northern section of this country [by H. J. Coolidge, jr.] The second part deals with hunting big games in Cochin-China for the Field museum by Theodore Roosevelt."-Introd., p. 12-13.