Bøker utgitt av Loretta M. Tollefson

In Fall 1841, a band of roughly 300 Texans straggled out of the Staked Plains into New Mexico. They had intended to claim everything east of the Rio Grande for Texas. Instead, they were captured and sent south to El Paso del Norte, then on to Mexico City. The largest group of prisoners, which included journalist George Wilkins Kendall, was escorted to El Paso by Captain Damasio Salazar. Five prisoners died on that trek. Kendall would later write a book describing the experience, a book which accused Salazar of food deprivation, mutilation, and murder, and fed the glowing coals that would become the Mexican-American War. But what really happened on the way to El Paso? The Texian Prisoners tells the story through the eyes of Kendall's friend George Van Ness, a lawyer burdened with the ability to see his enemy's point of view, and asks us to consider the possibility that Kendall's report was not unbiased. A historically accurate retelling of Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk, this fictional memoir will make you question everything you thought you knew about Texas, New Mexico, and the boundary between them.

It''s August 3, 1837, and rebellion has broken out in northern New Mexico. By the end of the week, Governor Albino P├⌐rez and key members of his administration will be dead, and a governor with indigenous ancestry will be installed in Santa Fe. It''s August 3, 1837, and rebellion has broken out in northern New Mexico. By the end of the week, Governor Albino P├⌐rez and key members of his administration will be dead, and a governor with indigenous ancestry will be installed in Santa Fe. Trouble''s been brewing for over a year, fed by new laws restricting the right to vote, the threat of taxes, and a governor who''s quicker to borrow money than distribute it. On top of that, he''s jailed the Santa Cruz de la Ca├▒ada alcalde for making a decision he didn''t like. The locals free the mayor and go to war, campesinos and Pueblo warriors against the ricos.  But the rich aren''t about to give up their privileges so easily. More people will die before the violence ends.A deeply-researched biographical novel with implications for today, There Will be Consequences explores the events before, during, and after August 1837 through the eyes of people who were there. Twelve linked stories propel the narrative forward from the perspective of individuals as diverse as Albino P├⌐rez, rebel governor Jos├⌐ Angel Gonzales, Santa Fe gambler Gertrudes "Do├▒a Tules" Barcel├│, Taos priest Antonio Jos├⌐ Martinez, and that most wily of New Mexico''s politicians, Manuel Armijo.