La rosa de California

Year of the Lord 1781, Mission San Gabriel, California. Father Prior, Fray Daniel Cepeda, alarmed at the wave of assaults by the Yuma Indians (whose unequivocal and cruel signature is to nail, in full view of the world, the remains of their victims with thorns from the bush known as "rose of California") alarmed writes to the governor and captain general don Felipe de Neve requesting the protection of the dragoons of his majesty the king. The indomitable Yuma warriors, including the young Solitary Moon, are increasingly fearsome in their raids. If before the Comanches had been their blood targets, now they were the whites and especially the friars of the Hispanic missions and those who lived in them, mestizos, Creoles and Mexicans. They must now face the troops of the dragoon captain Martín de Arellano, known throughout the Viceroyalty of New Spain, from the jungles of Guatemala to Arkansas, as the Great Captain, as the Tónkawas, Siri, Wichitas and Yumas Comanches called him.