Who would have thought it?

Description:

On a trip out West in the mid-1800s, a New England doctor saves a Mexican girl from the Indians and adopts her. She meets only hostility in his hometown, until it is discovered she is wealthy, when she becomes everyone's favorite. A critique of opportunism and hypocrisy by a Mexican writer, wife of a U.S. Army officer and author of The Squatter and the Don. The novel is a reprint of the 1872 original.

subjects: Young women,  Mexican American women,  Fiction,  Adoptees,  New Englanders,  Upper class families,  Racism,  Mexican Americans,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, historical, general,  Young women, fiction,  Mexican americans, fiction,  New england, fiction,  Social life and customs,  Families

Places: New England