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1 online resource (viii, 561 pages) |
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| Summary |
"Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and waging war against their enemies, including white men, which complicates his sense of loyalty and understanding of who he is. But when disease, starvation, and overwhelming numbers of armed Americans decimate the tribe, Eli finds himself alone. Neither white nor Indian, civilized nor fully wild, he must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong, a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny"-- Provided by publisher. |
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930L Lexile |
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Kidnapped by the Comanche after his mother and sister are murdered, thirteen-year-old Eli McCullough quickly adapts to Comanche life until the tribe is decimated by armed Americans, leaving Eli alone in a world where he is neither white nor Indian. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Indian captivities -- Fiction.
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Comanche Indians -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Families -- Texas -- Fiction.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- Fiction.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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Comanche Indians. |
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Families. |
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Fathers and sons. |
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Indian captivities. |
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Texas -- Fiction.
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Texas. |
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Epic fiction.
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Western stories.
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Western fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Western fiction.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Meyer, Philipp, 1974- Son New York, New York : Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013] 9780062120397 (DLC) 2013431170 (OCoLC)834159090 |
| ISBN |
9780062120410 : $16.99 |
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0062120417 : $16.99 |
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