Arch Gibson

Kotah Gold Arch Gibson

Tre McMillan is thirteen, confused, and running for her life. She escapes abusive stepfather, gangster D. A. Kutt at a Texas truck stop. Kutt, a petty criminal going large, has tried to recruit Tre as drug mule and prostitute. Rejecting that fate, Tre now faces sale to drug runner and human trafficker Buddy Broadus. Failure to comply means certain death. Tre strikes out cross-country and stumbles upon the massive Palo Duro Canyon Park and Grandfather and Uncle Willie Kotah. The Comanche brothers are camped to go treasure hunting and commemorate the 1874 deaths of tribal ancestors and more than 1,000 horses massacred by soldiers. The Kotahs catch Tre stealing food, but they quickly learn that she needs much more than food and water to survive the likes of Kutt and Broadus. Much, much more. Allowed to stay in camp and buttressed by stories of ghost horses, Tre adopts the Kotahs as her only family. She learns horsemanship, self-defense skills, and spiritual strength, weapons Kutt and Broadus failed to account for as this struggle eventually boils out of the canyon and continues across country. Back to the Palo Duro Tre, Bear and the Ghosts of the Palo Duro provide a stormy night of reckoning, at least for Broadus . . .and those who hear, see and believe in ghosts and horses.