title: Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest: Based on Stories Originally Collected by Juan B. Rael (English and Spanish Edition)
author: Jose Griego y Maestas
description: Quite delightful--full of magic and variations on Christian morality.
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  # The Little Lady of Lagunitas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Richard Henry Savage
  
  
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  INTRODUCTION.
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK I. THE LAST OF THE DONS BY THE BLUE PACIFIC.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. UNDER THE MEXICAN EAGLE.—EXIT THE
  
  
  FOREIGNER.—MONTEREY, 1840.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. AT THE PRESIDIO OF SAN
  
  
  FRANCISCO.—-WEDDING CHIMES FROM THE MISSION DOLORES.—-LAGUNITAS
  
  
  RANCHO.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. A MISSING SENTINEL.—-FREMONT'S CAMP.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV. HELD BY THE ENEMY.—“THE BEAR FLAG.”
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK II. GOLD FOR ALL.—A NEW STAR IN THE FLAG.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. THE GOLDEN MAGNET.—FREE OR SLAVE?
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. LIGHTING FREEDOM'S WESTERN LAMP.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII. THE QUEEN OF THE EL DORADO.—GUILTY
  
  
  BONDS.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. JOAQUIN, THE MOUNTAIN ROBBER.—THE
  
  
  DON'S PERIL.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX. THE STRANGER'S FOOT AT LAGUNITAS.
  
  
  VALOIS' SPANISH BRIDE.
  
  
    
  GOING HOME TO DIXIE: STARS AND STRIPES, OR STARS
  
  
  AND BARS?
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X. 