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Language
English
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial Modernclassics
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
185, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.
4) Black fox
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Allan Johnson is a former plantation owner. Britt Johnson was once his family slave, now a freed man facing a new kind of hatred on the frontier. Together, with a rag-tag volunteer army, they'll stand up for their hopes and dreams in a journey of courage and conscience that will lead to victory, or a battle to the death.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In Black Fox, Texas plains ran with the blood of natives and settlers, as pioneers carved out ranch land from ancient Indian hunting grounds and the U.S. Army turned the tide of battle. Now the Civil War has begun, and the Army is pulling out of Fort Belknap--giving the Comanches a new chance for victory and revenge. Led by the remarkable warrior, Little Buffalo, the Comanche and Kiowa are united in a campaign to wipe out the settlers forever. But...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
382 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1864. The frontier cavalry has been withdrawn for the War Between the States, and the able men have enlisted, leaving the white and free black families in the valley of the Brazos River very much on their own. The Comanches and Kiowas decide to take the opportunity to rid the land forever of these invaders. Adrianne Chastain, a widow and grandmother in her mid-thirties, has been spotted by the Kiowa war chief Satanta. Most of her family is...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
342 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1871, Santanta, a Kiowa war chief, boasted at the Kiowa-Comanche Agency that he had led a war party against a wagon train of freighters. When he repeated his boast to General W. T. Sherman, who was on a tour of frontier forts, the order was given for his arrest, along with two other chiefs who were implicated. The killing, torture, and mutilation of the freighters was said to have been a ghastly crime. But never before had members of an Indian...