Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1914. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A romantic novel of the Spanish in what is now New Mexico, set in the late 1600's, by this popular author, actress and Indian activist who went to live among the Hopi Indians in 1909. Upon publication, the New York Times review stated: "It is an ingeniously conceived and cleverly told story that Miss Ryan writes of the days when the Spaniard was riding, an arrogant conqueror, over the mountains and across the deserts of Mexico; when the tiger claws of the Inquisition were reaching out for victims and the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest were rising in rebellion against both the religion and the rule of their conquerors. It is told in the first person, the narrator being a relative of the high-born and high-spirited maid of Spain, who follows her betrothed across the sea to the New World." Illustrated with a sepia toned frontispiece and three inserted plates, colored endpapers and decorations bordering every page by Hanson Booth. INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page "Mildred, I am glad you have this as they are exceedingly rare. Cordially. . . " While it is not quite accurate to call the book 'exceedingly rare' copies signed by the author are very uncommon. 407 pp.