Comanche Captive

Laura Little seeks to return to her Comanche captors to be reunited with her six-year-old son who was left behind in 1873 when the U.S. Calvary liberated her. After a year in a Fort Worth mental institution, she escapes, heading for Comancheria, a portion of New Mexico and Texas. Scott Renald, an Indian agent searching for white captives, meets Laura by chance on the Texas plains, where the two join forces on a dangerous mission to find her child. Caught between the Tonkawa tribe to their rear and the Comanches ahead of them, the pair proceed west but are separated after a bloody standoff with the Tonkawa. Laura eventually rejoins the Comanches so they will deliver her to her son while Scott continues West on a different trail. Conhaim (Autumn Serenade) offsets this brutal tale of human cruelty, injustice, and violence with rich descriptions of the natural beauty of the West.