Hombre by Elmore Leonard.
A white man raised by Native Americans becomes the possible rescuer of passengers who have treated him with contempt when their stagecoach is attacked. Elmore Leonard places prejudice inside the immediate demands of survival.
Read it for the question of obligation to people who refuse to recognize one's worth. The western setting makes the distance between social judgment and practical courage difficult to evade.
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