The Golden Valley Author:Daoma Winston Set against the nineteenth century American Southwest and the two vastly different cultures fighting for its rich land. — Dominating the novel are the beautiful and proud Anitra Martinez daughter of one of the great Spanish landowning families now living under an uneasy truce with the American masters of the New Mexico Territory, and Leigh Ransom... more »e, an iron-willed and ruthless Yanqui adventurer from Texas who is determined to carve out an empire for himself from the great Spanish holdings.« less