Perhaps best known as the painter of Kindred Spirits-the quintessential Hudson River School painting-Durand became the "dean of American landscape painters," as Linda S. Ferber writes in her introduction to this edition, and "was one of the ...

A well-written story that follows several real-life characters through the turmoil of the rebellion that rocked northern New Mexico in 1847.

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