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Title	:	Ride the Wind
Author	:	Lucia St. Clair Robson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 589 pages
Published	:	November 12th 1985 by Ballantine Books (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Westerns. Romance. Historical Romance

Ride the Wind

Lucia St. Clair Robson

Paperback | Pages: 589 pages

Rating: 4.37 | 5160 Users | 484 Reviews

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In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman. It is also the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever....

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Original Title:	Ride the Wind
ISBN:	0345325222 (ISBN13: 9780345325228)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Cynthia Parker
Setting:	United States of America Texas,1836(United States)
Literary Awards:	Spur Award for Best Historical Novel (1982)

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I'm a big book loaner. Every time I read something I loved, my first impulse is to give it to someone else immediately, "here, read this!". And a lot of times, I never get that book back. If I really loved it, I go and buy it again, so I still have a copy. Consequently, I have owned 7 copies of this book (yeah, I am dumb, because I kept loaning it out). The last time I bought it, I was told it was out of print, so I held on to that copy.I've always been interested in Native American history, and

This book was recommended by a good friend of mine, and she hasn't steered me wrong yet. This book will break your heart. First it will make you sick, then make you mad, then you will fall in love...then you will repeatedly feel like you've been run over by tanks. For the past three days, I have been hard put to set this down, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. It was kinda surreal reading it, because the story of Quanah Parker is pretty well known to me, I learned about him in

3.5There is a great deal of details involving the lives and customs of the plains Indians in this version of the Cynthia Anne Parker story. This was a very romanticized depiction, but there are some extremely brutal scenes throughout the story. Aside from the gushy romance, this novel was told with great adventure and detail. Good for details on the lives of the Native Americans, good for an adventurous story, not so good for the facts about the life of Cynthia Anne Parker.

Still one of my all time favorite books! Based on historical events, this is a story of Cynthia Ann Parkers abduction and assimilation into the lives of the Comanches that kidnapped her. It outlines the gradual fall of the people. Beautiful, yet haunting. The incredible sadness will stay with you for months, if not years.

A CAPTIVATING, HAUNTING GLIMPSE INTO TEXAS HISTORYMany of the paperback covers make this book look like a cheesy western romance novel. Do not be fooled! Ride the Wind is based on the true story of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was kidnapped in 1836 during a brutal raid by the Comanche Indians, then adopted and raised by the tribe. I was stunned by my change in perspective at the beginning, I was horrified by the savagery of the Indians; by the end, I was furious with the savagery and ignorance of

The cheesy cover had me very skeptical about this book, but I think this is a book that is going to stay with me for years and years. Yes, there is better writing, but man oh man, what a story! I learned about Native Americans, the Texas Rangers, and Westward Expansion, in a way that I never learned in school. Learned about daily life, motivations, and how the Indians and settlers impacted each other. The book doesn't whitewash Indian attrocities, you do not get a trite, "at-one-with-nature"

I read The Red Heart by James Alexander Thom, and I thought that was the best written account of a white adopted by natives that I had ever read now Im not so sure, this was a very moving and well written story, and while it was rather long it was well worth my time. An excellent account of Nautdah (Cynthia Ann Parker ) who lived with The People for 24 years a story full of sadness and drama and love and some inaccuracies too, although not as many as can be found in any Google search of this