Josefina and her sisters are happy when their T?a Dolores comes to live with them and their father, but Josefina is worried that all the changes will cause them to forget their mother.
In 1824 New Mexico, nine-year-old Josefina is happy when her grandparents and aunt come to visit, but she thinks she must choose between meeting her grandmother's expectations and being true to herself. Includes historical notes on women's rights in New Mexico in 1824 as well as a recipe for apple empanaditas.
Loma, a young Hopi kidnapped by Spanish soldiers and sold into servitude to fur trapper Big Jim in 1932, eventually comes to understand, and even form a friendship with the rough frontiersman who has become his owner.
In 1777, under orders from George Washington, sixteen-year-old Captain Lorenzo Bannister drives 500 head of cattle east from San Antonio, Texas, to feed the Continental Army while enemies, old and new, plot against him.
Profiles the lives and struggles of American pioneers Daniel Boone, Stephen Fuller Austin, Jedediah Smith, John Augustus Sutter, Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, and John Charles Fremont.
Describes mission life during the Spanish colonial period in the southwestern United States, the plight of Native Americans and Roman Catholic missionaries, and Spanish missions today.
In 1615, a friar sent to Santa Fe by the Viceroy of New Spain meets a boy who shares his concern for the local Indians and who helps him determine the future of this small outpost town.
