![Mike Kearby, Trail's End Books, $14.95, Softcover. Mike Kearby, Trail's End Books, $14.95, Softcover.](https://www.truewestmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/may09_last_renegade_250.jpg)
In 1877 Texas, Comanche teenager Young-Man-Listens is captured by a white posse and sold to a traveling circus. After two years of humiliating captivity as a sideshow attraction, Young-Man-Listens is released by a sympathetic 11-year-old white boy. Beginning with an adult storyline, the plot gradually becomes muddled as it turns next into Young Adult and finally into a children’s story. Peppered throughout the text are numerous cartoon illustrations. This story might have been better off targeting one age group of readers.