A companion novel to The light in the forest. A white girl searches for her identity after having been taken prisoner as a child, adopted into an Indian family, married to an Indian, then forcibly returned to her white family.
The final novel in the "Awakening Land" trilogy, in which Sayward Wheeler completes her mission, living to a ripe, old age, and seeing her family and friends make the transition from the ways of the wilderness to the ways of civilization.
True Son had been captured at four years of age, and then made a part of the tribe that had captured him, but by the time all the captives were to be released True Son had come to hate the White Man and his ways.
After being raised as an Indian for eleven years following his capture at the age of four, John Butler is forcibly returned to his white parents but continues to long for the freedom of Indian life.
After being raised as an Indian for eleven years following his capture at the age of four, John Butler is forcibly returned to his white parents but continues to long for the freedom of Indian life.
Lutie Brewton, a cultivated lady from the city, leaves her husband, children, and life on a huge cattle ranch to return to the city. Twenty years later after her youngest son is killed, she returns to the man who loves her in spite of everything.
After being raised as an Indian for eleven years following his capture at the age of four, John Butler is forcibly returned to his white parents but continues to long for the freedom of Indian life.
After being raised as an Indian for eleven years following his capture at the age of four, John Butler is forcibly returned to his white parents but continues to long for the freedom of Indian life.
