On a trip out West in the mid-1800s, a New England doctor saves a Mexican girl from the Indians and adopts her. She meets only hostility in his hometown, until it is discovered she is wealthy, when she becomes everyone's favorite. A critique of opportunism and hypocrisy by a Mexican writer, wife of a U. S. Army officer and author of The Squatter and the Don. The novel is a reprint of the 1872 original.