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Shipwreck on Padre Island Reveals Wolves Encounter
In May 1846 a company of Mexican War volunteers, en route from Galveston to the Rio Grande, was shipwrecked near Padre Island. Dr. S. Compton Smith recounts surviving a night of a norther and a close encounter with large wolves on the beach before reaching Point Isabel and joining Gen. Taylor for Monterrey. The Texas Collection at Baylor holds these materials from the memoir Chili Con Carne.
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Galveston
Rio Grande
Padre Island
Point Isabel
S. Compton Smith
Chili
Dr. Smith
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Roberts
Pierce L. Firth
Port Isabel
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