Like the Comancheros, Francis, Lottie, and Billy learn to sleep while riding, but the journey is torturous as they ride further into the isolated badlands the Comancheros call home. Comancheros are notorious for pushing their horses to run for days through rough wilderness land, with no more than a few minutes' rest here and there. 40 caliber Lancaster rifle Francis's father gave him for his fourteenth birthday. Francis, Lottie, and Billy don't stand a chance: a band of Comancheros takes them prisoner, confiscating the. Worse than any Indians, however, are the Comancheros, outlaws who trade illegal goods with members of the Comanche nation. Francis's weapons, food, and other supplies are richly replenished before he returns to the trail with Lottie and Billy, but he doesn't realize they're entering one of the most dangerous parts of the country.įrancis instinctually fears Indians after a group of Pawnees kidnapped him from his family on the Oregon Trail. It briefly looks as though Francis will get the hangman's noose, but justice is eventually served in roundabout fashion. He peacefully surrenders to a posse of American soldiers who escort him to the city of Taos. Francis would like to gallop away with Lottie and Billy, hoping the lecherous soldier's death is never connected back to him, but running seems wrong. The fighting is mostly over, but American officers are still stationed here for administrative purposes. Unwittingly, Francis has wandered into a war between the U.S. Tucket has taken a human life for the first time. The man shoots his gun at Francis, who is forced to return fire, and seconds later young Mr. The resourceful teen embraces being responsible for Lottie and Billy, but hope for peaceful passage through Mexico is quashed when they come upon an American soldier forcing himself on a Mexican woman. With a mare and a mule to carry the three of them, they have traveled a great distance south into Mexican land, with the goal of swinging back up to the Oregon Trail and locating Francis's family. Having learned wilderness survival from the enigmatic Jason Grimes, Francis was better prepared to care for an orphaned girl (Lottie) and her little brother (Billy) when he discovered them alone on the plains after their pa's death from cholera. Trouble has repeatedly found fifteen-year-old Francis Tucket as he searches for his family in the vast Western frontier of 1840s America, but the adversity he faces in Tucket's Ride is more daunting than anything so far.
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