Part II, Summer: Chapters 27 - 30 Summary

November finds Terrible Snows and his women near the border of the Oklahoma territory, where they wander from band to band seeking to improve his fortunes. Here his chief, Sun Name, meets with New Mexican traders who wish to buy Rachel and take her back. Most live white captives bring a good ransom. In Santa Fe, NM, Rachel is taken in by Mrs. Donaho, who notifies her husband in Texas of her release. Wanting to get Rachel home as quickly as possible, the Donaho's hitch up their own wagon and head to Texas where Rachel learns that her husband has already remarried. Rachel dies one year later at the age of eighteen. The continued raids on the white settlers create people who make Indian hunting their life's work. John Wolf is one such man. Texas...