Chapter Eighteen
November 1869
The Grand Gato had full sails billowing by the time the sun was up. Captain Garrido introduced Santana Rosenbaum to everyone. Grant, Angelina, and Santana were soon deep into a conversation about horses and training them. They quickly realized that Santana was a fount of knowledge that was much broader than their own knowledge and experience with horses. Both understood why Gato wanted Santana and were determined to pick Santana’s brain all the way to Colorado.
Angelina asked, “Santana, I’m not familiar with the name ‘Rosenbaum.’ It doesn’t sound Spanish.”
Santana smiled and replied, “No, it’s Jewish. The first Jews came over with Columbus in 1492, and they have been trickling in ever since. One of my male ancestors married a woman in Venezuela, an
