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Mier Expedition Diary: A Texan Prisoner's Account Format:Paperback From the eastern shores ofFew episodes in Texas history have excited more popular interest than the Mier Expedition of 1842. Nineteen year old Joseph D. McCutchan was among the 300 Texans who, without the cover of the Lone Star flag, launched their own disastrous invasion across the Rio Grande. McCutchan's diary provides a vivid account of his experience the Texans' quick dispatch by Mexican troops at the town of Mier, the hardships of a forced march to Mexico City, over