| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

Doniphan's Epic March: The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War. By Joseph G. Dawson III. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xiv, 325 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-7006-0956-3.)

This study by Joseph G. Dawson III describes how Col. Alexander W. Doniphan and his First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers made a major contribution to the westward expansion of the United States and to the war against Mexico. It made this reader follow 856 citizen-soldiers in their long trip to New Mexico, Chihuahua, and back to the Gulf of Mexico, to fight with them in a country that seemed to reject them, and to appreciate the great effort they made to accomplish the country's Manifest Destiny. . . .

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