The Kiowa Verdict - Hardcover

Haseloff, Cynthia

 
9781445856438: The Kiowa Verdict

Synopsis

A fictionalized account of the trial of Satanta, an Indian chief who led a war party against a wagon train in 1871 Texas, torturing and killing its occupants. Upon capture, far from denying the massacre, he boasted of his prowess. Despite this self-incrimination, lawyer Joe Woolfolk managed to save his neck. By the author of Man without Medicine.

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In 1871 Kiowa war chief Satanta boasted that he had led a war party against a wagon train of freighters. His boasting led to his arrest along with two other chiefs. Never before had an Indian war party been put on trial, compelled to defend their acts of violence. Cynthia Haseloff has dramatised this moment in American history.

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