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The Blood of the Conquerors

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First published: 1921
Pages: 190

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Harvey Fergusson's first novel opens in a Southwestern town around the turn of the twentieth century, where Ramon Delcasar carries the pride of an old New Mexican rico family whose Spanish ancestors once held a vast royal land grant. That wealth has thinned, and power has passed to Anglo-American newcomers. Trained as a lawyer and hungry to climb, Ramon schemes over the family lands, works the courts, and pursues Julia Roth, a visiting Eastern woman who might carry him into that new world. Neither the land nor the romance holds. In the end he is thrown back among his own people, farming a small place and living much like the ordinary Mexican folk his forebears once ruled. Fergusson, an Albuquerque native, writes conquest and racial distrust without sentiment.

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Harvey Fergusson

Harvey Fergusson (1890–1971) was an American novelist born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He built much of his fiction on his native Southwest, portraying Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo life across books such as "Wolf Song" (1927) and "In Those Days" (1929), and he later worked intermittently as a Hollywood screenwriter.

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