Richard Hollingsworth

Dark Corner Cemetery Richard Hollingsworth

Based On A True Story. While settling his grandfather's estate, an old insurance policy issued by a now-defunct company was found. The family history section noted a great-grandfather as "killed by Indians." A genealogical search uncovered his name, history, and location. Richard Hollingsworth now had the facts that his great-great grandfather had been massacred in 1873 by Kiowa Indians on Salt Creek near old Fort Richardson, Texas. The story unfolds as two young boys-one from a white frontier Texas family, the other a Native American Indian family-face life without fathers killed in the 1873 raid. Separate, but complex, events thrust them through life until they meet as young adults at the Indian College in Oklahoma where a mysterious bond forms between them from the beginning. Several experiences and circumstances lead them to probe events at Dark Corner Cemetery where the incredible coincidence of their lives is uncovered. It is a story of the western frontier developed with historical accuracy and realistic imagination. With frank honesty, the story is told of the abuses, broken vows, and lies from both sides of the drama.