Quest Of The Four A Story Of The Comanches And Buena Vista eBook

Excerpt: "A tall boy, dreaming dreams, was walking across the Place d''Armes in New Orleans. It was a brilliant day in early spring, and a dazzling sunlight fell over the city, gilding the wood or stone of the houses, and turning the muddy current of the Mississippi into shimmering gold. Under such a perfect blue sky, and bathed in such showers of shining beams, New Orleans, a city of great and varied life, looked quaint, picturesque, and beautiful."