Spotted Boy and the Comanches

by Mabel Earp Cason

Publ. Pacific Press 1963. Pictorial HB 155 pp. with watercolor illustrations.

Genres: Christian, Historical Fiction, Childrens

155 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of my favorite books growing up. I think I read it 30 times. It helped spark my interest in Native culture and of course it fed my dreams of being kidnapped by Indians and growing up as one. I guess it kinda worked, I married one. LOL.

[Nichole · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my all-time favorite book! Swift Arrow was good also!

[Alice Benson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thad Conway lived in the boonies in 1863 Texas. There was no school and no church. His parents only book was the Bible, so Thad not only read the BIble but his parents had Thad memorized large portions of the BIble. The Comanches captured Thad and had him for over a year. He found that they also had some of his friends, Melissa, Miz Sally and her two twin grandsons, Timmy and Tommy and another white child Willie. An Indian squaw pampered and loved the three little boys. His Thad's indian mother Little Rabbit loved him too. But Thad, Melissa and Miz Sally longed for home.Thad was blessed in that he had two older brothers who were Texas Rangers and they did not give up looking for him. He was also blessed by the Bible passages of God's promise to deliver us and he was kind to his Indian captors so that they were kind to him. By not fighting, but submitting to them Thad
got treated better. When Thad got pneumonia his Indian mother did everything that she knew for him because she loved him.Thad learned to accept people as they are as God does.This is a great book that I could read over and over and I am an adult.I rated this book 100+++.

[Melody Medeiros · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was one of my favorite books growing up.

[Dana Booth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Got a notification that a friend of mine just read a book called Ride the Wind. When I read its description, it reminded me of Spotted Boy and the Comanches - one of my favorite books in elementary school. This was read to me and the whole class by my 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Wentz, along with Heide and all of the Little House books. In 5th grade, I reread them all. I do wonder now how it would hold up and if it would make me cringe. The world and our understanding of it has certainly changed since it was written in 1963!

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it as a kid. I'm not sure how I'd rate it if I reread it heh.

[Brynn The Book Nymph · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is sad but worth reading.

[Callie McLay · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is sad but worth reading.

[Miriam Mushu Pop · Rating 5 out of 5]

🦦read it when I was little🦔

[Deary Darling · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh wow it IS here! I used to play this book out alone in my wilderness childhood endlessly. I would daydream for hours of being saved kidnapped and wisked away to live with the Indians (and no i don't mean Native Americans -- they were still called Indians, however wrongly, then) and they would come to think well of me and include me and unlike the book never bring me home.

[Janice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book. We have read this many times with our family, it has been read to our grandchildren, our children, our foster children and to their friends. Our children's friends used to love coming to our house when it was story time. We own more than enough books to start a library, which I would really love to do.
I just wish my home were big enough to unpack them all.

[Eldon · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read an older edition when I was in elementary school. I didn't much like it then. I think it kind of haunted me for a while - negative feelings anyway that still make me not sure if I want to re-read it as an adult.

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

My most favourite book!
First read as a young teen and have enjoyed it as much each time I have read it since then.