Amos Edwards and his adopted nephew, Martin Pauley, try to to find 10 year-old Debbie Edwards, who was abducted by Comanche after a raid that left her family dead. The story is loosely based on what happened to Cynthia Ann Parker, abducted by Comanches in Texas in 1836 when she was about 10 years old. The Searchers was later adapted into the classic movie of the same name, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. This ebook includes a bonus short story, "The Battle of Gunsmoke Lode," originally published in Collier's Weekly in 1930.
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To people who felt like outcasts and aliens, he showed the way home. And then, in one devastating night, all their hopes collapsed. This is where our story begins—in the valley of despair.
Now, the novel that gave birth to the film returns to print--a timeless work of vivid, raw western fiction and a no-holds-barred portrait of the real American frontier.
Axtell , “ The White Indians . ” The American literary tradition of the " captivity narrative ” from which The Searchers derives : see Kolodny , “ Among the Indians . ” On the historical background of actual captivity in the Texas ...
Tomàs Rivera is the author of the now classic Chicano novel _ y no se lo tragÑ la tierra/_ and the earth did not devour him and the short story collection The Harvest.
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Her "father's" deathbed confession reveals that Holly's real father was almost certainly the notorious serial killer known as "The Hunter," and that her mother gave Holly up to save her life.
'The Searchers', Sight and Sound, 26/2, Autumn, 1956. Anderson, Lindsay. About John Ford (London: Plexus, 1981). Bogdanovich, Peter. John Ford (London: Studio Vista, 1967). Byron, Stuart. '“The Searchers”: Cult Movie of the New ...
It is a very full and definitive biography, but as Frank himself in his Introduction states The story can never be a complete one.