#1 – The Color of Lightning
During the final years of the Civil War, the formerly enslaved Britt Johnson moves his wife Mary and their children from Kentucky to north Texas in search of land and independence. Their settlement lies within a contested frontier. When a large Kiowa and Comanche war party…
#2 – Simon the Fiddler
In March 1865, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin is finally conscripted into the Confederate army after years of avoiding military service. His talent as a fiddler helps him survive the last fighting in Texas and brings him into a travelling band of former soldiers. At a military gathering…
#3 – Chenneville
Union lieutenant John Chenneville survives a severe head wound during the final months of the Civil War and spends nearly a year relearning how to walk, speak and remember. When he returns to Missouri, he discovers that his sister Lalie, her husband and their infant child…
#4 – News of the World
In 1870, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas reading newspaper reports to isolated communities for ten cents a listener. At Wichita Falls he accepts responsibility for Johanna Leonberger, a ten-year-old girl recently recovered from the Kiowa people who raised her after killing her family.…