Two cousins, Mary and Florence, begin at a girls’ boarding school and are carried into Texas in the years of its revolt against Mexico, where Catholic intrigue threatens their faith and their happiness. The siege of the Alamo looms over the story. Its fierce anti-Catholic polemic is that of 1850s Protestant America.
Of interest as the debut of the woman who later wrote Beulah and St. Elmo, best read with its prejudices in view. Download the free EPUB.
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