The Searchers

The book that inspired the classic John Wayne movie...To build a home on the Texas plains took years of work. To destroy it took one night."Charged with emotion and the feel of the land."-New York Times In this great American masterpiece, which served as the basis for the classic John Wayne film, two men with very different agendas push their endurance beyond all faith and hope to find a little girl captured by the Comanche. After a Texas frontier family is massacred by Comanches, Amos Edwards and his nephew, Martin Pauley, search for Edwards' niece, who had been taken captive during the raid Supper was over by sundown, and Henry Edwards walked out from the house for a last look around.