Jiles, Paulette
Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JILMedawar, Mardi Oakley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDGrey, Zane
Summary: When a black-hearted hide stealer kidnapped his girl and avenging Native Americans scalped his boss, buffalo hunter Tom Doan rides out on the prairies to deliver his own justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1953
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREMedawar, Mardi Oakley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDMomaday, N. Scott
Summary: A novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOMJiles, Paulette
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JILSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019