The California Rose
by Jesus Maeso De La Torre
After the great success of his novel Comanche, Jesús Maeso de la Torre returns to the territories of New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Montana, Mississippi and California, which belonged to the Spanish Empire for three centuries, and relives the raids of the dragons after the Indians, life in the missions and the great effort made by the Crown to maintain its influence in the southwestern United States.
Year of our Lord 1781, San Gabriel Mission, California. The Father Prior, Friar Daniel Cepeda, alarmed by the wave of attacks by the Yuma Indians (whose unmistakable and cruel signature is to leave the remains of their victims nailed to the surface of the earth with the thorns of the bush known as the “California rose” in plain sight), writes in alarm to the Governor and Captain General Don Felipe de Neve requesting the protection of His Majesty the King’s dragoons.
The indomitable Yuma warriors, including the young Luna Solitaria, are increasingly feared in their raids. If before the Comanches had been their blood targets, now they were the targets and especially the friars of the Spanish missions and those who lived in them, mestizos, creoles and Mexicans. They must now face the troops of the captain of dragoons Martín de Arellano, known throughout the viceroyalty of New Spain, from the jungles of Guatemala to Arkansas, as the Captain Grande, as the Comanches Tónkawas, the Siri, Wichitas and Yumas called him.
JESUS MAESO DE LA TORRE (Úbeda, Jaén, 1949) is one of the most renowned authors of historical novels in our country. He studied Education and later obtained a degree in Philosophy and History from the University of Cádiz. Throughout his career he has combined teaching with literature and historical research. He is a full academic of the Royal Spanish-American Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, a meritorious member of the Literary, Scientific and Artistic Athenaeum of Cádiz and a member of the Andalusian Society of Historical and Legal Studies. He has collaborated in media such as the newspapers El País, La Voz de Cádiz and Diario de Cádiz, and the magazines Clío, Andalucía en la Historia, Más Allá, Muy Historia and Historia y Vida, among others.
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