Juan and Juanita, (Riverside bookshelf)

By Frances Courtenay Baylor and Henry Sandham

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00086L2I0
• Release Date: January 1926
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

My copy is a hardback from before ISBN days. So, this is a fake ISBN

This must have been a book of value in its day, with gilded edges and illustrations by Henry Sandham. The illustrations look more like engravings. Not sure what has been transferred to the copy. After looking at Chapter 1, "The Tiger Springs", I saw that the story was about a family in the province of Coahuila. I was intrigued. I know this is a fictional story (based on true events), but I was interested in all things about the history of Coahuila. From the preface: This is the story of two important fortune fortunate -- mice, let us say, seized by a tiger and escaping from under his very claws -- is true in its essential facts. That is, Mexican children were captured for some years on the other side of the Rio Grande by the Indians and carried off to the Llano Estacado. After four years in captivity, they made their escape…