The Kiowa Verdict [Dramatized Adaptation]

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

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

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

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

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