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Robert Anderson Wilson

1812–1872

A 19th-century American traveler and polemicist, he wrote vivid, strongly opinionated books about Mexico based on journeys he made there in the early 1850s. His work blends travel writing, religious criticism, and historical argument in a way that feels immediate and revealing of its era.

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Mexico and Its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

Mexico and Its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

by Robert Anderson Wilson

About the author

Robert Anderson Wilson was an American author born in 1812 and died in 1872. He is best known for books on Mexico, including Mexico and Its Religion (1855), drawn from travels he made in the country during 1851–1854.

His writing combines firsthand observation with a forceful Protestant critique of Mexican religious life and with broader historical commentary. Another of his works, A New History of the Conquest of Mexico, shows the same taste for revisionist argument and controversy.

Today, Wilson is mainly remembered as a sharp, energetic 19th-century commentator whose books offer both travel narrative and a window into the political and religious attitudes of his time. Because easily verifiable biographical details about his personal life are scarce in the sources consulted, modern readers often know him chiefly through his publications rather than through a full life story.