The color of lightning

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349 pages

English language

Published Feb. 15, 2009 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-1-55468-317-8
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OCLC Number:
305101947

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5 stars (1 review)

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.

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5 stars

A riveting fictionalization of the life of Britt Johnson, little known African-American Texas hero, in the footsteps of Le May's The Searchers. Realistic and with the Indians' viewpoint - absent in other accounts. At times has an other worldly quality - the accounts of the returned abducted children and their fates read like space alien abduction stories - but maybe that is where alien abduction stories come from.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Officials and employees
  • African Americans
  • Quakers
  • History
  • Race relations
  • Employees
  • United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • United States

Places

  • Texas