![]() ![]() The hectic pace of the town overwhelms Johanna, who the Captain leaves with two friends while he gives a reading. As they leave, a pale-haired man and two of his henchmen watch them.Ĭaptain Kidd and Johanna arrive first in Spanish Fort. ![]() Before they leave Wichita Falls, Captain Kidd uses the fifty-dollar Spanish coin the Leonbergers have paid him to buy a dark green excursion wagon. Thus, the white ten-year-old with blonde hair and blue eyes does not speak English and believes that she is Kiowa. Four years earlier, a tribe of native Indians called the Kiowa kidnapped Johanna and raised her. In the town of Wichita Falls, Texas during the winter of 1870, Captain Kidd agrees to transport Johanna Leonberger back to her family in south Texas, outside Castroville. This novel, told in the past tense, opens on Captain Kidd who, since the end of the Civil War, has been wandering from city to city in north Texas and giving professional readings of news stories that he collects from national and international newspapers. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Jiles, Paulette. ![]()
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