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A very entertaining and thought provoking historical fiction. Although the story is one of Cynthia Ann Parker, through her eyes and that of her Comanche family you can really feel the squeeze put on the plains Indian by the relentless encroachment of the lands by the non-natives. You can feel their way of life slip from them with the wasteful slaughter of the buffalo and the increasing reduction of the Comanche's range. Who's heart would not hurt for Cynthia Ann, who turned from captive to a true member of "The People, when she is ripped from her Comanche family and forcefully returned to a family and life that she has little remembrance. The author does a very good job of bringing Cynthia Ann Parker's struggles, loves, and story to life. You won't be disappointed.


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Ride the Wind A Novel Lucia St Clair Robson Books Reviews

This book is beautifully and often poetically written, with excellent use of research on the geographical locations of the Comanches' lives, the botanical and zoological details of the time and place. The story of the tribe and of the individual characters, including Cynthia Ann Parker/Nadua, a white child kidnapped by the Comanche, Wanderer, a real Comanche warrior and chief, and their son Quanah, among many others, is compelling. There is a strong element of romance throughout the plot. And the book is based on history. As you read you learn amazing details of how the Comanche used the resources of their natural environment.

At firstI could barely keep going for fear of what would happen to Cynthia and the other captives. And there are horrible events for both the white settlers and for the Comanche in the story. But the writing and the story allow the reader to digest what is happening without faltering. There is much joy in the story.
And you will get a valuable look at the contrast between particular Native American cultures and American European culture.
A truly inspiring and enlightening book for me. I never knew much about the Comanche Nation and the story of Cynthia Ann Parker before this read. Now I am fully engrossed in learning as much as I can about this story and those times in our country. I expect to be visiting as many of the places mentioned in this book as I can. Personally for me the picture on the cover of the book says so much and portrays so many of the feelings, hopes, loves, and strengths of the characters in this book. The artist who painted the scene on the cover of this book brought home with a bang what it must have been like to see Cynthia with her long blond hair riding her favorite horse with her son Quanah and riding along with a bunch of Comanches warriors and her beloved husband at her side across the Great Plains. What freedom and independence and what a fantastic woman Cynthia was.
After reading the book and seeing an actual photo of Cynthia taken sometime in the 1860's I now understand why her hair was dark and short in the photo but long blond when she was living with the Comanches.
This was a fantastic read!
A captivating and engaging read! This is a long story, both in pages and in the span of time. I learned about Native American culture, American history, and thoroughly enjoyed the story of lives well-lived. Cynthia/Naduah takes us on a journey from the White man's world, to the Native American tribes & plains, and back again. This story resonates with anyone who has lived, loved, and lost.
It opened my mind to a time and culture I knew little about. Go read it!
Vibrant with detail and rich with historically true descriptions, this is a time honored book about Texas and the Staked Plains, built around the life of Naduah aka Cynthia Ann Parker. It details the joy and difficulty of native life, lives, and tribes juxtaposed with westward "white" expansion across the West.

This book is one of the most readable accounts of this time in history. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in Texas history during the mid-1800s to early 1900.
One of my all time favorite books. Completely captivating (and I never use that word) from the beginning to the end. The nuances, stories, and feelings just take you to their world and trap you there in the best way. I read a review that basically said it was too hard to read due to authentic names and the images. But how do you not want to read a book that draws you into it's images? It hits every single emotion (you'll laugh and cry) and this is actually based on a real story, so it's going to have a lot going on, again, in the best way. I read this as a young adult, and have read it at least once a year since.
I so enjoyed this book, I had a lawyer in Abilene, Texas whose name was Quanah Parker; his great + grandfather was the last great chief of the Comanche's. He told me so much about Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker, it was heartbreaking how she and Wanderer died. I found it so sad that she was not allowed to return to the only home she had known since she was a child when she was kidnapped, and I guess in those times it was unthinkable that she loved and was loved by the Native Americans. I grieved her since of desperation and cried when I read of her last years, I thoroughly enjoyed this book even though it hurt to think of how their lives ended.
I thought the book was very good. I feel there are not enough books about the indians in general. It was very interesting to learn about their ways, some of the different tribes and most of all, how they felt as a culture to their loved ones and last but not least; how they felt about the earth. It was cherished. Something we should still be doing as well.
This was basically a love story as well. What I did not quite understand is how seemingly easy it was for a captured white child to adapt so quickly to live like her captures; especially after she saw almost a whole fort massacred with many of her family in it. I try to imagine that a child is susceptable to the change in order to survive. The book does tell the good and bad in both indians and white people.
I would definitely like to read more about the indians, any and all tribes because at the end of the day, the white people were more the enemy than the whites. Keep writing Ms. St. Clair Robson!
A very entertaining and thought provoking historical fiction. Although the story is one of Cynthia Ann Parker, through her eyes and that of her Comanche family you can really feel the squeeze put on the plains Indian by the relentless encroachment of the lands by the non-natives. You can feel their way of life slip from them with the wasteful slaughter of the buffalo and the increasing reduction of the Comanche's range. Who's heart would not hurt for Cynthia Ann, who turned from captive to a true member of "The People, when she is ripped from her Comanche family and forcefully returned to a family and life that she has little remembrance. The author does a very good job of bringing Cynthia Ann Parker's struggles, loves, and story to life. You won't be disappointed.