Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton

The Squatter and the Don (Recovering the U.s. Hispanic Literary Heritage) Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton 2nd edition

The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional narrative written and published in English from the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted the full rights of citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, was, by 1860, a subordinated and marginalized national minority.