The color of lightning
By: Paulette Jiles
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781554683178
Subjects: Fiction; Officials and employees; African Americans; Quakers; History; Race relations; Employees; United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs; United States
Description: At the end of the Civil War, Britt Johnson, a freed black man, travels with his family from Kentucky to start a new life in Texas. But this wild country holds its own dangers; the U.S. government is engaged in a land struggle with the Kiowa and Comanche nations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. [347]-349.