Lost in the Texas Desert
Summary
An amiable fantasy-mystery, set in the extensive and famous Monahans Sandhills in West Texas, involving two high-school youngsters—a brother and sister—from Odessa, Texas, who get lost in the Sandhills, and a big group of "Indians" who are unaccountably present in a place they should have disappeared from centuries ago. (Could they be part of a modern movie company, the kids wonder?) But the Indians capture the kids. Meanwhile their father and mother and aunt and uncle are franticly looking for them. . . . Along the way readers are introduced to the heroic record of the great 16th-century Spanish explorer Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions, who, in the 1530s, walked across this part of what was to become Texas. And other extraordinary facts and legends of the region link the modern youngsters to the early peoples and explorers of a region now best known for its production of oil. What starts out as a springtime lark turns into a stressful waking nightmare, and ends with a welcome transformation of the principal characters and their ideas about life.
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