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OVERLAND
A Novel.
By J. W. De FOREST,
Author of "Kate Beaumont," "Miss Ravenel'sConversion," &c.
1871
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
In those days, Santa Fé, New Mexico, was an undergrown,decrepit, out-at-elbows ancient hidalgo of a town, with not ascintillation of prosperity or grandeur about it, except the nameof capital.
It was two hundred and seventy years old; and it had less thanfive thousand inhabitants. It was the metropolis of a vast extentof country, not destitute of natural wealth; and it consisted of afew narrow, irregular streets, lined by one-story houses built ofsun-baked bricks. Owing to the fine cl