A Woman of the People
Subtitle: A Novel
By: by Benjamin Capps.
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Comanche Indians -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Capp's work is considered one of Texas' best known and most respected novels. In this story of the Texas frontier, he dramatizes the capture by a Comanche band of a 10-year-old white girl and her 5-year-old sister from the upper reaches of the Brazos River a decade before the Civil War. This is the story of the girl's adaptation to becoming A Woman of the People. It portrays Comanches as human beings who adapted themselves to a hard existence in a harsh land. We see them in the last days of their glory.