The First Fire: Stories of the Cherokee, Kickapoo, Kiowa, and Tigua

by Jane Archer

Step into a colorful pageantry of the powerful people whose cultural legacy continues to influence the great state of Texas. From the Cherokee in the Piney Woods of East Texas, the Kickapoo at Eagle Pass in South Texas, the Kiowa of the Panhandle in the Great Plains, to the Tigua of Isleta del Sur Pueblo at El Paso, four nations come alive through myth and history in Jane Archer's vividly written book about the first Texans. Part II of ROTP's successful Texas Indian Myths and Legends.

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 25, 2005

About the author

Jane Archer is the bestselling author of eight Jane Archer is the bestselling author of over twenty books. Tender Torment, her first novel published in 1978, sold half a million copies, received a live-action television commercial, hit national bestseller lists, and was later reissued along with sequels, Wild Wind! and Silken Spurs. She is a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award finalist, her novels are popular in many foreign countries, and Out of the West has been optioned for a television movie.

Texas Indian Myths and Legends, a nonfiction, continues to receive wide acclaim. As Nina Romberg, she writes vampire and dark suspense novels. She frequently lectures to promote reading and writing, and, her articles have appeared in Fiction Writer, The Literary Times, Romantic Times, Romance Writers Report and Novelists Ink. She has a degree in graphic design and is the former Creative Director for Book Publishers of Texas