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Updated: May 26, 2025

That beauty shone resplendent now in the beautiful face of Mary Marchland's daughter. The world can change wonderfully in sixty minutes. As we rode out toward the Rio Grande, the yellow sands, the gray gramma grass, the purple sage, the tall green cliffs, and, high above, the gleaming snow-crowned peaks, took on a beauty never worn for me before.

Margaret Hill McCarter - Vanguards of the Plains

And this was the man who was seeking to control the life of Eloise St. Vrain. I fairly groaned in my anger. "The failure to win Mary Marchland's love was the first time in his life that Fred Ramer's will had ever been thwarted, and he went mad with jealousy and anger. Gail, they are worse masters than whisky and opium, once they get a man down."

Margaret Hill McCarter - Vanguards of the Plains

You know that last pleading cry of Mary Marchland's, for Jondo to protect her child, and how Clarenden, for love of this brave man, came to New Mexico on perilous trails to take the little Eloise from you. And lastly in this matter, the threats to force a marriage unholy in God's sight, because no love could go with it.

Margaret Hill McCarter - Vanguards of the Plains