RANKIN, Melinda.

TWENTY YEARS AMONG THE MEXICANS,; a narrative of missionary labor.

Cincinnati: Chase & Hall, 1875. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 199. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt. Spine gilt, (lacks front blanks, ex-library, couple of library stamps, a good copy. See Howes R-64. Originally published in Cincinnati in 1875. Howes erroneously says that this is a reprint of her Texas book published in 1850, but it is a separate book. Not in the Graff Collection. Very scarce. Item #43589

Rankin followed her missionary zeal through Mississippi and Kentucky and then traveled on to Texas where she settled in Huntsville and opened a school for Mexican children on the American side of the Rio Grande.

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