year 1840

Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and…

A band of boisterous paroled female prisoners accompanies Army engineers on an undercover map-making assignment into or near Mexican territory. Their cover story is that…

At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them…