The Squatter and the Don
The Squatter and the Don by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton is available here as the complete text, split into 1595 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Squatter and the Don A Novel Descriptive of Contemporary Occurrences in California by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #35538.
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- Chapter I _Squatter Darrell Reviews the Past._
- Chapter II _The Don’s View of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo._
- Chapter III _Pre-empting under the Law._
- Chapter IV _Efforts to Right the Wrong._
- Chapter V _The Don in his Broad Acres._
- Chapter VI _Naughty Dog Milord an Important Factor._
- Chapter VII _From Alameda to San Diego._
- Chapter VIII _Victoriano and His Sister._
- Chapter IX _Clarence is the Bearer of Joyful News._
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI _George is a Christian Gentleman._
- Chapter XII _Why the Appeal was Not Dismissed._
- Chapter XIII _At San Francisco._
- Chapter XIV _Of Miscellaneous Incidents._
- Chapter XV _Journeying Overland._
- Chapter XVI _Spanish Land Grants Viewed Retrospectively._
- Chapter XVII _Doña Josefa at Home._
- Chapter XVIII _At Newport._
- Chapter XIX _In New York._
- Chapter XX _At the Capitol._
- Chapter XXI _Looking at the Receding Dome._
- Chapter XXII _Perplexities at Alamar._
- Chapter XXIII _Home Again._
- Chapter XXIV _The Brewers of Mischief._
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI _Mrs. Darrell’s View of Our Land Laws._
- Chapter XXVII _Darrell Astonishes Himself._
- Chapter XXVIII _Shall it be Forever?_
- Chapter XXIX _Hasty Decisions Repented Leisurely._
- Chapter XXX _Effect of Bad Precept and Worse Example._
- Chapter XXXI _A Snow Storm._
- Chapter XXXII _A False Friend Sent to Deceive the Southerners._
- Chapter XXXIII _San Diego’s Sentence is Irrevocable._
- Chapter XXXIV _The Sins of Our Legislators!_
- Chapter XXXV _The Fashion of Justice in San Diego._
- Chapter XXXVI _Clarence and George with the Hod-carrier._
- Chapter XXXVII _Reunited at Last._
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