Woman of the People Paperback - 1999
by Benjamin Capps; Afterword by James Ward Lee
From the rear cover
A Book-of-the-Month Club selection in 1966, A Woman of the People is one of Texas' best-known and most-respected novels. In this story of the Texas frontier, Capps dramatizes the capture by a Comanche band of a ten-year-old white girl and her five-year-old sister from the upper reaches of the Brazos River a decade before the Civil War.
As the narrative progresses, Helen Morrison slowly -- and almost unbeknownst to herself -- goes from being a frightened, rebellious white girl to becoming "a woman of the People". Like many of the people who figure in true-life Indian captivity narratives, Helen adopts the ways of the Comanches, marries a member of her small band, and becomes a major figure in tribal life.
A Woman of the People parallels in some ways the real story of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was taken by Comanches, married Peta Nocona, and became the mother of the celebrated Quanah Parker, the last great chief of the Comanches. But unlike the Cynthia Ann Parker story, where many mysteries abound, the novel takes the reader inside the mind of the main character, and we are allowed to grow with her as she forgets her white heritage as Helen and becomes Tehanita (Little Girl Texan).
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- Title Woman of the People
- Author Benjamin Capps; Afterword by James Ward Lee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Texas Christian University Press, Fort Worth, TX
- Date 1999-01-01
- ISBN 9780875651958 / 087565195X
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.49 x 5.55 x 0.54 in (21.56 x 14.10 x 1.37 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Country/Cowboy
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Women pioneers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98047729
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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