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                         ALAMO RANCH

                   _A Story of New Mexico_

                   BY SARAH WARNER BROOKS

    Author of "My Fire Opal," "The Search of Ceres," etc.

    CAMBRIDGE
    PRIVATELY PRINTED
    MCMIII

    UNIVERSITY PRESS. JOHN WILSON

    AND SON. CAMBRIDGE. U.S.A.


                     TO LEON

    _Across the silence that between us stays,
      Speak! I should hear it from God's outmost sun,
    Above Earth's noise of idle blame and praise,--
      The longed-for whisper of thy dear "Well done!"_




[Illustration: ALAMO RANCH]




ALAMO RANCH

_A STORY OF NEW MEXICO_