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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: staked plain
  name:
    name part: Tolbert, Frank X.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1958
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 272 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: This novel tells the truth as some poets remember it. The poets were very old frontiersmen and ancient horse Indians, once hostiles, with whom the author talked over a period of thirty years. And if Charley Goodnight, or Cap Arrington, or Big Tree, or Hunting Horse do not sound like the names of poets, their talk was poetry to Frank Tolbert's ears. And he has reproduced the sounds of their voices in this book. For the people of this novel-- Lonnie Nabors and Dulce Deno and Ranald Mackenzie-- were real people in the Southwest of the 1860's and 1870's. Lonnie's life was the stuff of legend, but it was real. It was a life lived among the wild horse Indians; and except for his coloring, which was very fair, Lonnie could hardly be told from his Indian brothers. He knew their lore and languages; he followed their customs; he shared their women. He wanted no part of civilization and its hampering manners until the day he met Dulce Deno, a beautiful woman of much experience and gambling skill who'd been a spy for General William Tecumseh Sherman's Yankee army. Lonnie changed her life as much as she changed his. This is a swift-moving story, whether its scenes take place in a bedroom in the Menger Hotel, or in a Texas courtroom, or under the cap-rock battlements of Llano Estacado or on the Staked Plain, the sacred hunting ground. In the authenticity and vigor of its portrayal of Indian life, it is no peer. It is both an exciting tale and an unparalleled piece of Americana -- Book jacket.
  note: by Frank X. Tolbert.
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Comanche Indians
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Comanche Indians
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
  classification: PZ4.T648
  classification: 813.52
  identifier: 56011105
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 750612
    record change date: 20170501181307.0
    record identifier: in00000679258
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng