5/22/2023 0 Comments Paulette jiles booksThe Commanche raid his community, kill his oldest son, and take his wife and two younger children captive. He has plans to become a freighter, hauling goods by wagon to outposts and forts. Very basically, it is the story of Britt Johnson, who comes to Texas as a free black man just after the Civil War. I get overwhelmed just thinking of how to describe this book and all it contains. Well written historical fiction can teach me more than years in a classroom, because it gives me people with personalities, names, faces, motives it leads me step by step into dangerous but lovely landscapes, it shows me why certain things happened as they did, and in this book it explains so much about the western expansion and the tragedy of the American Indian. The cover blurb from the Washington Post on my edition says, "Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted.This is glorious work.".
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