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William Walker and the History of Nicaragua in the Nineteenth Century

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WILLIAM WALKER. By GUIERENRIQUE. (San José, Costa Rica: Tipografía Lehmann, 1971. Pp. 355).

FREEBOOTERS MUST DIE! THE LIFE AND DEATH OF WILLIAM WALKER, THE MOST NOTORIOUS FILIBUSTER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By ROSENGARTENFREDERICJr. (Wayne, Pennsylvania: Haverford House, 1976. Pp. 226. $12.95.)

THE SOUTHERN DREAM OF A CARIBBEAN EMPIRE, 1854–1861. By MAYROBERT E. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973. Pp. 286. $10.00.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Ralph Lee Woodward Jr.*
Affiliation:
Tulane University
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Copyright © 1980 by Latin American Research Review

References

Notes

1. Albert Z. Carr. The World and William Walker (New York: Harper & Row, 1963).

2. Bolaños collaborated in the publication by the Fondo de Promoción of the Banco de América of Managua of the following: Diario de John Hill Wheeler, Ministro de los Estados Unidos en Nicaragua, 1854–1857 (1974); Documentos diplomáticos de William Carey Jones, agente especial de los Estados Unidos ante Costa Rica y Nicaragua, 1857–1858 (1974); Documentos diplomáticos de don José de Marcoleta, Ministro de Nicaragua en los Estados Unidos, 1854 (1974); El testimonio de Scott, declaración del Capitán Joseph N. Scott, como testigo de la defensa en juicio entablado por el depositario de la compañía accesoria del tránsito contra Cornelius Vanderbilt, en 1861, en Nueva York (1975); and La guerra en Nicaragua según Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper y Harper's Weekly (1976).

3. Guier, William Walker, cites it more than forty times, referring to Rollins as the “Bernal Díaz del Castillo de la expedición filibustera” (p. 64). Scroggs, Filibusters and Financiers, however, made no reference to Rollins.

4. (Mobile: S. H. Goetzel and Co., 1860).

5. With Walker in Nicaragua, or Reminiscences of an Officer of the American Phalanx (Columbia, Mo.: E. W. Stephens Publishing Co., 1909).

6. Serie Tesis de Grado, No. 2 (San José, Costa Rica: Programa Centroamericano de Ciencias Sociales, 1976).