ABOUT BOOK

The story is of an Indian maiden who saves the life of a Boston boy from the renegade Utes who murdered Agent Meeker and ambushed Major Thornburg's command in 1879 on White River. By his aid "Chiquita" is educated in one of the great colleges on the Connecticut river, and devoted her life in studying the economics of civilization; finally throwing off her burdensome yoke, returning to the religion of her fathers.