
In this deeply affecting novel Scott O Dell envelops the reader in the heroic world of the conquistadors a world that is at once somber and many-colored. Though they may have been ruthless, these steel-helmeted young men of Spain lived their lives on the very edge of eternity...

A 1967 Newbery Honor Book









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