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As they travel, Kidd starts teaching Johanna English, and she also recalls bits of German from her childhood. They kill Almay, wound the others, and ride off. Kidd is outgunned, but Johanna gets the idea to put coins in the shotgun shells to make them more powerful.

However, Almay catches up to them with two other men, and there's a shootout. Kidd pretends to consider it to buy himself some time and leaves with Johanna immediately. Due to the difficulties of registration and the changing governments in Texas, they do not have clean title.Īfter the Dallas reading, a man, Almay, who has followed him from Wichita Falls, offers to purchase the girl (for trafficking). In Dallas, Kidd writes to his daughters about reclaiming property left to them by their mother. The print shop was closed down due to the government temporarily taking over the press. He later moved to San Antonio, where he ran a print shop and met his late wife, a woman from a old Spanish family, and they have two daughters, Elizabeth and Olympia. He later joins the messaging corps as a runner, carrying information, a job that he loved. Kidd is an veteran of multiple wars, starting with the War of 1812. Kidd finds her near a river, shouting out to a passing Native American tribe, though the tribesmen can't hear her over the roar of the river. In Spanish Fort, Johanna goes missing while Kidd does a reading. Texas currently in the midst of the Reconstruction and is under military rule. They come across soldiers who roam the state. On the road, Kidd names the girl Johanna. The girl speaks only Kiowa, and her remaining family, an aunt and uncle, are German and live near San Antonio. In Wichita Falls, he agrees to escort home a ten-year-old white girl who has been recaptured from the Kiowa (Native Americans). He feels a little bored and depressed about his life. In News of the World, in 1870, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is a veteran who makes a living traveling across small towns in North Texas, reading out news stories to audiences for a dime per person.

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