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Killstraight stories volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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He was the only Kwahadi Comanche who had been sent to the Carlisle Industrial School where he was educated among Lakotas. Cheyennes Kiowas and Pawnees. It was there that his name was changed to Daniel Killstraight. When he arrived on his way back to the Comanche reservation, Killstraight was in time to witness the public hanging of Jimmy Comes Last, convicted of two murders. But it could be that Jimmy Comes Last, who refused to say anything at all,...
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Series
Killstraight stories volume 4
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...
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