Historical, Westerns, United States, Literary 

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-28 Pages: 592 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins A Globe & Mail 100 SelectionSpring. 1849 Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a band of Comanche storms his Texas homestead and murders his mother and sister.. taking him captive. Brave and clever. Eli quickly adapts to Comanche life. carving out a place as the chiefs adopted son and waging war against their enemies. including white men-which complicates his sense of loyalty and understanding of who he is. But when disease. starvation. and overwhelming numbers of armed Americans decimate the tribe. Eli finds himself alone. Neither white nor Indian. civilized nor fully wild. he must fashion a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong-a journey of adventure. tragedy. and grit that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.Intertwined with Elis story are those of his s... - from Amzon