Excerpt from For the Love of Tonita: Other Tales of the Mesas The sun shone on the mesas far to the east and the broad valley stretching between them, on the little stream that sparkled in its light, on the old adobe fort with its surrounding huts, and on the three mountains far to the left whence the stream had come. The fort, a hollow square lacking the fourth side, comprised numerous adobe dwellings joined into continuous walls; some in ruins, but the mere suggestions of former houses, with the adobes fallen in heaps about their bases; and some still habitable. The stream, scarcely two yards in width, ran on the outer side of the western wall, and beyond it, under the rise of the trail, a few straggling huts stood among low willows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.