Cibolero

<p>For years Antonio Baca lived the wandering and restless life of a Cibolero or buffalo hunter following the great herds that roamed the endless Llano Estacado-the high plains of a region that would one day be New Mexico. After marrying and settling down Baca has finally found a modicum of peace in the home he built for his growing family. </p><p>But Baca witnesses the transformation of Nuevo Mexico from an isolated colonial outpost of the Spanish empire to a province of the newly independent nation of Mexico and finally to a land conquered by the avaricious <I>Americanos</I>. Following the United States's seizure of New Mexico Antonio and his countrymen find themselves treated as foreigners and second-class citizens in their own land. </p><p>When his daughter Elena is kidnapped by a band of invading Texas Rangers after the American Civil War Baca desperately tracks them across the llano of New Mexico and into Texas using his skills as a Cibolero. Terrified for his daughter's safety he plunges into the world of the gringos and discovers just how much the <I>Americanos </I>have changed his homeland. But as the days pass without any sign of Elena Baca fears for her life-and his own. </p>