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1. How does Captain Kidd choose his news stories to manage the crowd?

Captain Kidd reads stories of importance, like the story about the 15th amendment to the constitution being ratified—and he carries a small pistol to defend himself, if necessary—but after the controversial material, he reads stories from far off, exotic stories about explorers to the North Pole, and their ship, the Hansa being crushed in the ice, or stories about discoveries in electromagnetism, that will bore people and make them impatient to leave peacefully.

2. How did Britt Johnson come to be responsible for Johanna?

Britt says that the Agent—presumably the Agent for Indian Affairs—got a letter from Johanna’s aunt and uncle near San Antonio, including a $50 gold coin, to deliver her back to Castroville. Britt says that the Kiowa did not want her, since captives “get you run down by the cav” (9). The agent had threatened to cut off the tribes’ rations if they did not bring in their captives, so the Aperian Crow’s band of Kiowa Indians brought Johanna in and sold her for 15 Hudson’s Bay blankets and a set of silver dinnerware made of German coin silver.

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