The Native American Indians populated the entire landmass of what would later become the United States of America. When the Spanish arrived, they settled in present-day St. Augustine, Florida, and celebrated the first Thanksgiving on September 8, 1565. The next Spanish settlers out west crossed the Rio Grande near present-day San Elizario, Texas, on April 30, 1598. The expansion of the Spanish continued west with the settlement of present-day Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1600. This book is written in English with some Spanish and Comanche words. Though fictitious, the pages are filled with historical facts embedded in love stories. It includes the necessary alphabet to learn another language and tries to envision what daily life must have been like for the settlers after they spread north and east from Santa Fe.