Who Would Have Thought It: My Story of the American Civil War

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895) was the first female Mexican-American author to write in English. Her best known work is "Who Would Have Thought It?" a novel on Civil War. Ruiz de Burton's work is considered to be a precursor to Chicano literature. Her life took her from coast to coast in the United States, which provided her with opportunity for first-hand observation of the U.S., its wes...