Killstraight stories
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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His Arrows Fly Straight into the Hearts of His Enemies was his Comanche name. But the Pale Eyes called him Daniel Killstraight, and that is the name he is known by since he returned to the reservation and became a native police officer. Toyarocho, in a drunken stupor on contraband whiskey, rolled over onto his four-year-old daughter and smothered her. The Indian agent wants Killstraight to find out who supplied the whiskey - a task that is both difficult...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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"Comanche Tribal Police Sergeant Daniel Killstraight is sent to Fort Worth, Texas, with another Indian-school educated Comanche, Charles Flint, to show off Captain Richard Pratt's Carlisle Industrial School and his theory of "Killing the Indian" to save the man -- i.e., turn the Comanches and other Indians into "white men" by assimilation. Chief Quanah Parker is in Fort Worth, too, mainly to negotiate a new lease agreement with powerful Texas ranchers...
Author
Series
Killstraight stories volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After visiting his late mother's people on the Mescalero reservation, Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight waits to catch a train home when local cowboys bring disturbing news: an Apache has brutally murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and locals want to lynch him. Killstraight has no jurisdiction in this territory and he doesn't care much for Apaches. He knows nothing about Deming, the murdered girl, or the accused...
