by Donna | Nov 6, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier, by Scott Zesch. St. Martin’s Press (2004), 382 pages. This is a book about child abductions, perpetrated by the Native Americans against the settlers, in a very specific place...
by Donna | Aug 13, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer. Doubleday (2003), 372 pages. One of the exceptional things about Krakauer’s writing is his talent for branching off into ten different fascinating offshoots of his topic, while building suspense by...