02276cam a2200373 i 4500 623831090 TxAuBib 20170113120000.0 160830s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016040096 9781410489531 hardcover 1410489531 hardcover (OCoLC)957581553 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda DLC rda OCLCO rda DLC BDX BTCTA OCLCF OCLCO ORX JNE GO6 LLCLS T7R OCLCO TXMAL GZD TxAuBib OCLCO BDX BTCTA OCLCF OCLCO ORX JNE GO6 LLCLS T7R OCLCO TXMAL GZD TxAuBib rda Jiles, Paulette, 1943-, author. News of the World / By Paulette Jiles. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016. ℗2016. 291 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johannas parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act {28}civilized. 20170113. Widowers Fiction. Orphans Fiction. Kiowa Indians Fiction. United States History 19th century Fiction. Travel films Fiction. Large print books. lcgft Fiction. lcgft TXKPL