Captives: Sold for a Horse and Mule

Description

In 1843| Comanche Indians kidnapped sixteen-year-old Lidia from her home in Mapimi| Mexico. She had been the wife of her beloved Ernesto for just eleven days. Terrified and heartbroken| she knew that few women ever returned to normal life after being a Comanche captive. Forced to become the wife of Tokono| a Comanche warrior| her life was full of horror and tears. When Tokono was killed in battle| Lidia and two other captive girls were forced on a march that almost killed them. Hunters from Fort Bent| Colorado rescued the girls from their captors who sold them for a horse and a mule. John Hawken| a mountain man| worked at Fort Bent as a gunsmith after the fur trade ended. There| he and Lidia fell in love. This is the true story of their tempestuous life together| fraught with danger| adventure and romance.