A good old fashion cowboy yarn, like Larry Mc Murtry's LONESOME DOVE. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd has survived Indian wars, skirmishes with Mexico and the Civil War. Now at seventy one, he's ready to take it easy, his kids grown, his wife dead. So, despite his age, his sense of an ending, he agrees to return a ten year old white girl to her relatives after having been rescued from Indians. Their journey takes them from Wichita Falls to San Antonio. Along the way, Captain Kidd must gain the young girl's confidence as well as deal with the vicissitudes they meet along the trail, thieves, cheats and liars. The long trail rides our mixed with stops at a number of towns, where the two are either befriended of threatened. The core of the book is the growing relationship between the girl and Captain Kidd. His compassion, his understanding of this young girl and what she is going through after having lived for six years with Indians, slowly wins her over. It's a good read, a National Book Award Nominee in 2016.
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