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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...
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English
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The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 from a foreign war,...
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English
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"Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors, in this own-voices debut perfect for fans of Winter Counts. No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds...
5) The bravos
Publisher
Distributed by Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Major John Harkness is the beleaguered commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post in the midst of a Kiowa Indian rebellion. He must protect his fort and the wagon train passengers sheltered within, even as he searches for his kidnapped son.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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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...
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Series
Rivers West volume 17
Language
English
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Buck Wallace, a lone white man in the land of the Kwahadie Comanche, was determined to make his home by the Pecos River. He vowed to live alongside the Kwahadies and carve his own private paradise out of the wilderness. But the trail to peace was long, hard and stained with the blood of the few who went before him. He would have to brave the challenge of the legendary warrior Goyah...learn the perils and pleasures of love from the beautiful Kiowa...
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Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 26
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1945
Physical Desc
xiv, 306 p. : ill. (incl. map) ; 24 cm.
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English
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English
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Description
When Kiowa war chief, Santana, boasted that he had led a war party against a wagon train of freighters, he set the stage for his arrest. The war party had robbed, tortured and mutilated members of the wagon train, and now the Kiowa chiefs were to be tried in a Texas court. The case seemed open and shut, but attorney Joe Woolfolk made it clear that the U.S. would have to prove its charge without using Santanas boastful self-incrimination.
15) The Kiowa
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Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
111 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history, culture, and changing fortunes of the Kiowa Indians
Author
Series
Tay-Bodal mystery series volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
224 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
20) Black fox
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A former slave affects peace between Indian tribes and homesteaders in 1860s West Texas
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