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What happens to a dream of love when open country puts distance and hardship in its path?
In When Dreams Come True, Ritter Brown brings romance and adventure into the orbit of the American Southwest. Desert, mesa, canyon and wide sky frame a world of hard travel and strong longing. Small settlements lie far from the cities of the East. The pull is toward a larger life, and a love that must endure distance and risk.
Brown belongs to the early twentieth-century world of American popular fiction, when magazines and books carry romance and western adventure to a wide public. His warm, direct, openly emotional style gives this romance its old-fashioned appeal. The title holds out the promise of fulfilled dreams; the storytelling tradition puts hardship between longing and happiness.
What you’ll discover
- The Southwest's wide horizons Explore a landscape of heat, dust and long rides, far from the cities of the East.
- Adventure beside desire Follow the meeting of two longings: the wish for adventure and the hope of love.
- Dreams under pressure Discover a romance tradition where misunderstandings, rival hopes and frontier hardship stand between longing and happiness.
- Emotion without irony Settle into a warm, direct style that makes room for longing and heartfelt hope.
- An old-fashioned romantic spirit Enter a tradition of love stories where the desire for a larger life matters deeply.
Who will love it
For readers who love sweeping romance, wild landscapes and bold heroines, and who enjoy a tale of rivals, fiestas and ideas about living close to nature.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A rich man rides away from civilization
- Santa Fe in fiesta and the dancer everyone discusses
- The priest's ward and her wild past
- The family arrives and a hanging is stopped
- Two women meet and name their rivalry
- Don Felipe returns with a grudge
- Love, temptation and a clue bought with gold
- A dance becomes a test
- What the story is really about
Who’s who
- Captain Jack ForestA tall, wealthy former diplomat and soldier who leaves society to find a freer life close to nature.
- ChiquitaA Tewana woman raised by a priest, a gifted dancer and fine shot who guards a secret and loves Forest.
- Don Felipe RamirezA rich landowner who wronged a village girl and now wants revenge on Chiquita.
- Dick YanktonA charming mining millionaire and Forest's close friend, quick with a pistol and a joke.
- Bessie Van AshtonForest's spirited cousin, who sets out to tease Dick and finds herself falling for him.
- Padre AntonioThe kindly priest who raised Chiquita and cares for her happiness and her soul.
- JoséForest's loyal vaquero, devoted to his master and keeping a secret of his own.
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When Dreams Come True
by Ritter Brown
A rich diplomat turns his back on society for the Mexican desert and meets a dancer whose secret is a danger.
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Ritter Brown tells the story of Captain Jack Forest, a diplomat and soldier who walks away from a polished life in search of something real. In Santa Fe he meets a dancer who stirs a secret and a rival who wants her ruined.
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A rich man rides away from civilization
Captain Jack Forest rests at a desert spring in Chihuahua with his Indian companion José and his chestnut Arab, Starlight. He is thirty-five, a Harvard graduate, a former diplomat and a soldier of the Spanish war. He owns twenty million dollars and is promised a post as minister to Greece.
A trip through Mexico changes him. He sees tribes who live free and content, and he wonders why civilized life feels so complicated. At twilight on a trail near the pueblo of La Jara, a woman on a black horse gallops past him, and he feels that beauty means being free.
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What is When Dreams Come True about?
It follows Captain Jack Forest, a rich former diplomat who leaves society for the Mexican Southwest. In Santa Fe he meets the dancer Chiquita, faces rivals and old loves, and searches for a freer way to live.
Who is Chiquita in the book?
Chiquita is a Tewana woman raised by Padre Antonio in Santa Fe. She is a gifted dancer, an expert rider and shot, and the woman Forest comes to love, while she guards a secret.
Who is Don Felipe Ramirez?
Don Felipe is the wealthiest landowner in Chihuahua. Chiquita once humiliated him at the church door, and he comes back both loving and hating her, determined to take revenge.
The author
Ritter Brown
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Ritter Brown's When Dreams Come True is a romance set in the Mexican Southwest. It shows the author's interest in nature, travel and the contrast between modern society and older ways of life.
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