Doña Lona: A Story of Old Taos and Santa Fé

Blanche Chloe Grant

W. Funk, Incorporated, 1941 - New Mexico - 323 pages

This romance of old Taos and Santa Fe revolves about the famous characters of the period such as General Sam Houston and Kit Carson. It is a colorful story of a beautiful woman who became a power in Mexican and later American politics and also a leader of local society. It is a tale of the many loves in Dona Lona's exciting life in a brilliant setting of the development of the great Southwest. As the story opens, the caravan moves north through old Mexico toward the frontier town of Santa Fe. Dona Lona thinks of Rudolfo, the Mexican bull-fighter who only the night before had whispered his undying love under her grilled window. The strange land ahead fascinates her. It is wild country, the northern frontier of Mexico, not far from the border of the United States. An American trapper, Bill Williams, becomes Lona's friend and adviser. His sympathy helps her recover from illness suffered when Rudolfo is stabbed to death during a game of monte. Lona's great romance with the American frontiersman, Ewing Young, and the story of her gambling establishment in Taos, follows. The corruption of the Mexican governors slowly prepares the populace to welcome the coming American forces. Lona, though threatened by Governor Armijo, is able to help the U.S. troops effect the capture of the territory. Then comes the realization that Young will never return, her marriage to Jose Lucero--a dramatic ending to her life of adventure and romance.

Contents

• Section 1: 39
• Section 2: 56
• Section 3: 161

Bibliographic information

• Title: Doña Lona: A Story of Old Taos and Santa Fé
• Author: Blanche Chloe Grant
• Publisher: W. Funk, Incorporated, 1941
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Oct 12, 2007
• Length: 323 pages