A novel
Dust of the Desert
Grant Hickman, an American engineer arriving on the Mexican border, protects Benicia O’Donoju from Colonel Hamilcar Urgo, who insists she will marry him.
How it begins
The Golden Sunset Limited, Pacific Coast bound, snaked its way through a cleft in mountains and came sighing to a stop at the man’s town, El Paso.
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Text from Project Gutenberg.