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Children of the dust / Clancy Carlile.

ISBN: 0679441328
ISBN: 9780679441328
Physical Description: 428 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : Random House, Inc., [1995]
Copyright: &copy;1995

Carlile, Clancy, 1930-1998 (Author).

Summary:

A sweeping and historically accurate account of the Oklahoma land rush of the 1880s, often called the damnedest race in history. Children of the Dust tells of Gypsy Smith, a mixed-blood black-Cherokee, a gunfighter and lawman. The day before he is to be married, he is attached by the Ku Klux Klan, mutilated, and left for dead. The ghastly act sends Gypsy into a killing frenzy as, bent on revenge, he hunts down the guilty Klansmen one by one. Gypsy's fury plays counterpoint with the story of John Maxwell, a white schoolteacher whose affection for Indian students forces him to confront his own "enlightened" beliefs - that Indian survival depends on stripping the tribes of their heritage and reeducating them in the ways of the white man. Complicating Maxwell's dilemma is the romance between Rachel, his daughter, and Corby, a Cheyenne boy; their love is as doomed as the efforts of our heroes to halt the tide of history.--