A question came in recently from a True West reader about the premise of Alan Le May’s great novel, The Searchers, the story of a middle-aged Civil War Veteran who spends five years searching for his young niece, who was kidnapped by Comanche Indians.
She asked would someone like the character of Ethan really spend five years looking for his niece with the sole intention of finding and killing her?
True West September/October 2024