
The story begins on May 5, 1805, in one of the wildest and most abrupt portions of New Spain, which now forms the State of Coahuila, belonging to the Mexican Confederation.If the reader will have the kindness to take a glance at a numerous cavalcade, which is debouching from...

"The Queen of the Savannah" from Gustave Aimard. Author of numerous books about Latin America (1818-1883).





Gustave Aimard (13 September 1818 - 20 June 1883) was the author of numerous books about Latin America and the American frontier. Aimard was born Olivier Aimard in Paris. As he once said, he was the son of two people who were married, "but not to each other". His father, Fran?ois...