WARPATH

by Bruce Grant ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 20, 1954

Bruce Grant has several centers of interest in his chosen field- Americana and American history for example, see his Cowboy Encyclopedia and two novels about the war of 1812, Eagle of the Sea and Captain of Old Ironsides. Now he turns to the Comanche wars in a story whose vigor and authenticity will excuse a lot of its heavy handedness. 16 year old Brick Burnett is the hero whose return to the whites after four years of Indian captivity precipitates a loyalty problem that plays itself out against the culminating siege of the Texas town of Adobe Walls. With a yearning for both ways of life, Brick feels he must escape to rescue his younger brother Sul, a captive in another tribe. Doing so, he falls in with an outfit of buffalo hunters operating from Adobe Walls and stays with them when they promise to help find Sul. When the gigantic raid comes, Brick fights with the whites, but is captured, then freed by the Indians who must go down in a defeat that has its studied overtones of misunderstanding on both sides, but pays its final homage to the white man's way.

Pub Date: Sept. 20, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: World

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1954

Categories: FICTION