Down the Rio Grande, 1829 (American Sisters)
By Laurie Lawlor.
Description
RIVER OF NO RETURN Even the remote Rio Bravo town of Guerrero has paid a price for Mexico's war of independence from Spain. Gripped by drought and depression, Guerrero is changing. Sixteen-year-old Rosita Treviño dreams of a better life, as does fifteen-year-old Maria Alvarez, the book-loving stepsister she barely knows. When Father brings home a rich old suitor who chooses Rosita as his bride, she is determined to flee before it's too late! The next day, to everyone's surprise, a gringo named Austin, from Mexico's colony of Texas, arrives on a steamboat sailin...
ISBN(s)
0671039229, 9780671039226
