Facsimile of Original 1948 Edition including Expanded 1951 Ending, Glossary, and Cast of Characters. New Foreword by Marcia Muth.

On the Cover: “‘La Tules’ [María Gertrudis Barceló] Dealing Monte in Her Santa Fe Gambling House.” Illustration by Bill Hughes from "New Mexico Magazine," March/April 1971.

Doña Tules Barceló (María Gertrudis), a poor girl, has used her beauty and brains to become the richest woman in Santa Fe. She now owns one of the best and most opulent gambling houses in the American Southwest. Perhaps thinking that this will bring her even more wealth, Doña Tules agrees to be the mistress of the Mexican governor but switches her allegiance to the Americans during the Mexican War and eventually provides information and help to the occupying American army. In actual fact, a few months after the American army took over New Mexico Doña Tules loaned the United States Government one thousand dollars at 2 per cent interest per month to enable Colonel Doniphan to outfit his troops for their march to Chihuahua.

The Wind Leaves No Shadow, a true classic, is the real story of life, love, politics and war in mid-nineteenth century New Mexico and is based on historical research and actual reminiscences of the time. It was originally published in 1948 and an expanded version was published in 1951 that included a cast of characters, three additional chapters and a glossary. In this Sunstone Press edition, the cast of characters is placed at the front of the 1948 edition and the additional chapters and glossary are included in a separate section.

Doña Tules is also the subject of another book, Doña Lona by Blanche Chloe Grant, also published by Sunstone Press in its Southwest Heritage Series.

Ruth Laughlin, a Santa Fe, New Mexico native, was born in 1889 and died in 1962. Educated at Colorado College and the Columbia School of Journalism, she was a writer for the Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times and various popular magazines. As a result of her interest and research into the history of the American Southwest, she wrote two books: Caballeros (1931, revised in 1945) and The Wind Leaves No Shadow (1948, and expanded in 1951 with a cast of characters, additional chapters and glossary), now available from Sunstone Press in its Southwest Heritage Series. Both books are considered to be classics of Southwestern American literature.

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ISBN: 978-0-86534-600-0
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