Robert J. Alvarado
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This book was translated from a work of fiction by the author, Robert J. Alvarado. The original work, titled Young Pistolero, was written in American
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English and subsequently translated into Mexican Spanish by the author using the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. This is the first in a series of books and other works by the author. Subsequent books in the Young Gunslinger series will soon be published in Spanish. This award-winning saga is set primarily in the American Southwest as the Wild West unfolds. The new U.S. territories are undergoing unique and savage change as they shed 300 years of Spanish rule after the Mexican-American War and move toward American statehood. The saga is told through the life of a young peasant, a Mexican peón. A fugitive on the run from his homeland, riding a stolen Appaloosa stallion, he enters Texas in 1866 to find life on this side of the border holds new dangers along with the promise of a new life. As the tale unfolds, the author brings his unique Hispanic perspective and transports the reader to a time and place where history and fiction collide. The saga begins when a seventeen-year-old peón is on the run riding a stolen Appaloosa stallion after shooting the haciendero who raped his younger sister, Heading north, young Rafael Ortega enters into the United States in 1866 to find life on the other side of the border holds new dangers along with the promise of a new life. A gachupín aristocrat, Benicío Zuniga, of an old Spanish New Mexican family, now deposed of his land and wealth, turns to the outlaw life for revenge. He'll kill anybody in his rage, even his own brother. This gritty tale is set in the American Southwest as Americans and Mexicans struggle after the Mexican-American War. Americans are flooding this old Spanish territory and the bastions of social status are quickly changing. From the opposite sides of the old Spanish caste system, Rafael and Benicío seek to find new lives in the American Southwest, but only one will survive.
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