On their 400-mile journey through rough Texas country, fending off attacks by thieves and Indians, the two form a bond borne out of mutual respect and the need to survive. She remembers almost none of her English and tries to escape back to the tribe several times. Johanna had been kidnapped by the Kiowa and raised by the tribe as their own for four years. One day in Wichita Falls, he was approached by an old friend who asked if he would escort 10-year-old Johanna Leonberger home to relatives in San Antonio, in exchange for $50 in gold. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is an army veteran and widower who earns his living riding around Northern Texas reading news stories from East Coast newspapers to paying crowds in small towns with no other news source. This is a wonderful historical fiction novel set in postbellum Texas. Chris from the Chardon Branch wrote the following review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles.
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