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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks as an itinerant news reader and Civil War veteran who agrees to transport a young orphan white girl raised by the Kiowa back to her relatives in this historical novel, a National Book Award finalist.
In 1870, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an elderly widower and Civil War veteran, drifts through northern Texas, performing live readings from newspapers to paying audiences. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives near San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister, and took the little girl to raise as their own. Rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home and family she knows.
The four-hundred-mile odyssey through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves dangerous. The captain must watch for thieves, Comanche and Kiowa, and the federal army—and corral the wild Johanna. Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors begin to trust each other and forge a bond. But in San Antonio, Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon Johanna to strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden, or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780063011953