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The Wild Girl

. As a young man, Ned was part of an expedition to find and free a boy who was captured by the Apaches-using an Apache girl as ransom. Ned has photographed the girl, and her narrative combines with extracts from Ned diaries to tell a story that resonates years later, and that lays bare some of the harsh truths about the American presence in the West.

Genre
historical fictionwesternadventurecoming of ageliterary fiction
Themes
american historynative american
Setting
mexicoarizonaindia
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 368 pages

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