NMLP P-025732 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

A Confederate General from Big Sur

Richard Brautigan · Grove Press · 1964

True first is the 1964 Grove Press hardcover. Trout Fishing in America was written earlier but not published until 1967, so Confederate General was the first of his novels to appear in print. Preceded only by his 1950s small-press poetry pamphlets and broadsides.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-025732 for "A Confederate General from Big Sur" by Richard Brautigan (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025732, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).