The Kiowa Verdict Dramatized Adaptat..., Cynthia Haseloff
The Kiowa Verdict Dramatized Adaptat..., Cynthia Haseloff
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Synopsis

When Kiowa war chief, Santana, boasted that he had led a war party against a wagon train of freighters, he set the stage for his arrest. The war party had robbed, tortured and mutilated members of the wagon train, and now the Kiowa chiefs were to be tried in a Texas court. The case seemed open and shut, but attorney Joe Woolfolk made it clear that the U.S. would have to prove its charge without using Santanas boastful self-incrimination.

About Cynthia Haseloff

Cynthia Haselhoff was born in Vernon, Texas, and named after Cynthia Ann Parker, perhaps the best-known of 19th century white female Indian captives. The history and legends of the West were part of her upbringing in Arkansas. Haselhoff once said, “I love the West, perhaps not all of its reality, for much of it was cruel and hard, but certainly its dream and hope…” The Chains of Sarai Stone is her sixth frontier novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on June 27, 2008

I checked this book out mostly just to see if I could dig westerns. I think the answer was positive though this book in particular was little more than negative. In post-Civil War Texas, a Kiowa raiding party goes above and beyond simply robbing their victims, engaging in all sorts of gruesome tortu......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on October 27, 2024

I enjoyed The Kiowa Verdict by Cynthia Haselhoff. In her novel the writer brings to life an 1871 incident in which a number of freighters are maimed, tortured and killed by an Indian war party. Three chiefs are captured and put on trial. It soon becomes clear that the reasons for the attack are not......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on August 20, 2021

Historical Fiction - Supposedly researched as to facts. Conversations and things where no original documents can be found are fiction. I think this book gives a big pass to the white people involved, and doesn't quite address where the practice of scalping originally came from (that's how the US Arm......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on May 18, 2017

5 stars I read this for one of my library school classes. I admit, I was totally dreading reading a Western genre and this book proved me 100% wrong! Utterly fascinating, albeit somewhat fictionalized account, of the first time in American history when Native Americans (back then, called "Indians" b......more

Goodreads review by Katy on June 06, 2024

Good read to pass the time......more