Such a good book! I loved every minute of it! It's written without quotation marks but so well done that it flows smoothly and doesn't confuse the reader. I wanted to read it before seeing the movie and I am so glad to have read it first. Although having seen previews it is hard not to picture Tom Hanks as the protagonist. A unique and wonderful story!

Editing as I have now watched the movie. Wow! The book is so much better than the movie. I was quite disappointed in the movie version

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Fabulous story. So sad that I put it off so long before I finally got around to reading it. Even though the reviews were really good, the thought of reading a civil war/western type story just wasn't something that spoke to me. Shortly after I opened up this book though, I became immersed. It was so well written that the words just took me away. The characters stood out so well that I felt I knew every one of them. Such a joy to read from beginning to the end.

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I really enjoyed the story that this book told. It was moving, possible and straight-forward. The growing connection that the main character had with the little girl was lovingly told. It has challenging topics, handled very nicely and I especially loved the final words.

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A spellbinding story about an itinerant old man in Texas after the Civil War who agrees to deliver a young girl who has been captive with the Kiowa for four years to her relatives near San Antonio. There was so much to appreciate in this story. Besides the touching relationship that develops between Captain Kidd and Johanna, there's the political background and abundant detail about nature and society in that era. I thoroughly enjoyed this read.

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A different kind of a Western, but a good read, although I felt the ending was a bit abrupt. And I never knew you could kill someone by diming them to death.

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