When Slocum's old compadre is murdered, one backstabber convinces the whole town that Slocum is to blame. And now, the only friend Slocum can trust is his six-gun.

Dramatizes the life of Frances Slocum, who was born into a Quaker family, abducted by Native Americans in 1778 at the age of five, and came to like her new life so much she resisted 'rescue.'

In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Percilla-Augusta region of neighboring Houston County. The number of dead surpassed the casualties of the Rosewood Massacre in Florida and rivaled those of the Tulsa Riots in Oklahoma, but the incident--one of the largest mass murders of blacks in American history--is now largely forgotten. Investigate the facts behind this harrowing act of genocide in E.R. Bills's compelling inquiry into the Slocum Massacre.

Color illustration on front cover three superimposed vignettes: man in pink shirt embracing a woman with brown hair and purple dress, face of a man in a hat, and a man on a white horse in desert landscape.

Originally published: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972; reprinted with new preface by the author.