He and his beloved late wife raised their two daughters into their twenties.
It is a heavy burden for Kidd to take on. Given his advanced years and stellar reputation, the Captain seems like the safest bet to take the girl home. The freight driver refuses to do the duty, he being a recently freed African-American slave and not wanting to drive down to a part of the country where there are still enslaved black people. army has ransomed her back, and she needs to be returned to her family near San Antonio, four hundred miles to the south. She was a German American girl who had been captured by the Kiowa when she was six, her family butchered in front of her eyes. One day after a reading, a freight driver approaches him with a freed captive. The captain wears his seventy-one years very lightly and is spry with his mental acuity intact. For a dime, people flock to hear the stories, real and fantastical, with which he entertains them. I am so much the richer for having read this book.Ĭaptain Jefferson Kyle Kidd rides from town to town in North Texas of the 1870s, reading from newspapers from the east and as far away as London. The word painting is so vivid that it feels like a motion picture. If historical fiction is to be written, it should be like this: full of gorgeous details that are as much about the scenes as about the emotions of the people inhabiting the scenes.
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