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Summary: Cynthia Ann Parker
Review: The people come alive in Ride The Wind - you can feel the land - you can hear Lance's "morning song". Lucia St. Clair Robson is one of the greatest writers at creating people & places that are impossible to ever forget. She makes you see the Comanche village, the Texas massacre, the wild rides across the praires. She paints such vivid word pictures and with such an honest flair for historical facts that she doesn't create good guys and bad guys - she creates human beings that become friends as you read her books. If I were a teacher they would be required reading - showing both sides in a way that few history books manage to do. Ride The Wind is a book you don't want to put down - and even more, one you don't want to end.
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Summary: Undiscovered Western Classic
Review: Don't be fooled by the cover. This is not *Throbbing Raven's Passion*. Robson's novel about Cynthia Ann Parker is gussied up as a piece of historical romance, but it is a solidly researched, well-written biography of one of the most fascinating women of Texas, the mother of Comanche chief Quanah Parker. To avoid lunkhead complaints about "spoilers," I can't tell you what happens to her, but in the literature of women kidnapped by Indians, her story is unique.Robson does a great job of maintaining a delicate balance between the "savagery" of the Comanches (a horrifying massacre of the Parker family opens the novel) and the rich, positive side of their lives. She has set out to understand and communicate how a young white woman could come to regard her "rescue" as a second kidnapping, and she pulls it off. *The Searchers,* based on the same story, may be a greater work of art, but *Ride the Wind* has the taste and smell of truth about it.
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Summary: A touching and Unable to put down book
Review: This story of Cynthia Ann Parker, is an imposible book to put down. I read it 3 times in one month! I'm reading it again for the fourth time and I am enjoying it just as much as I did the 1,2,and 3 time I read it. Once you start reading it you fall so deep into the book that you feel like you are Cynthia Ann,and are looking into Wanderer's deep black eyes. You will laugh,and be scared, and weep with Cynthia Ann as Lucia St. Clair Robson, tells us the dramatic life of Cynthia Ann. You can picture what each character looks like and you can feel what each feels like. I'm going to read this book probily more than one thousand times more.
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Summary: The Best Book I've Ever Read!
Review: I am 60 years old and have been reading all my life. I read this book several years ago, and still reread it at least once a year. Robson's characters are so real you can imagine you are part of every conversation. The people and story stay with you long after you put this book down. It has moved me to read everything I can find on Cynthia Ann Parker and her life. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in history and Native Americans!
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Summary: One of the best ever
Review: Find it! You will not be able to put it down. This book is a gritty, unforgettable read. I felt like I was there with Cynthia Ann and went through the same joys and anguish that she did. When she was first taken by the People, I couldn't imagine how she could ever adapt to their ways or grow to love them, but the author did such a fantastic job in describing every detail and emotion, I found myself understanding how and why. A amazing glimpse of what I think that time period would really have been like: brutal, but beautiful and free.
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Summary: An award-winning western
Review: Ride the Wind earned the Golden Spur Award in 1983 and was voted as to The Top 100 Westerns in a survey on ReadTheWest.com in 2000. Lucia, a former librarian, is an avid researcher and it shows. You can learn more about Lucia and how she writes on her new website luciastclairrobson.com I don't know how many times I've read this book, but I always find new tidbits I hadn't noticed before: a mark of a truly great book.
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Summary: A Book I Will Read Over and Over
Review: I read this book at least 5 years ago and lent to a friend and never got back, and I remembered the story but had trouble with the title. It is a story that really made me think, and took me to another time. You can actually put yourself in her place and what she felt and the inter confict she must of went thru. I am going out and buy it again now that I know where I can get it and give it to my children and my grandchildren to read when they are old enough. It tells about a time we will never have the chance to experience.
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Summary: Ride The Wind
Review: If there is a book everyone needs to read it is this one. The descriptions are so vivid you actually can see in your mind's eye the story come to life. The individuals in the story are so real and full of life it makes you see the indian culture in a different light. It shows you what true family ties ought to be and in today's world fall dismally short. I loved this book and have read it till the pages have fallen apart. A fantastic book about a time of Texas history that brings "history" to life.
I can't say enough about this book.
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Summary: a truly memorable book
Review: a friend asked me to find this book for him. He had the title and author written on a little scrap of paper in his wallet.He is 69 years old and had been looking for this book for 10 years. Now if that doesn't say it all... He recommends it as the best book he ever read...found it on Amazon in five minutes
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Summary: Best book that I ever read
Review: I have always had an interest in Native Americans and their history. A friend reccomended this book to me. He said that this book would give me a really good understanding of their lives. He was right. I loved reading this book. The story is so heart wrenching. I can't stop thinking about it. And knowing that it is a true story makes it all the more haunting. Some people may consider these people savages. they were far more evolved than most people are today. When you read this book, you feel like you are there in the story. The love story has me mesmerized most of all. It would be wonderful to have love like Naduah and Wanderer had. I would like to be her during those 25 years that she lived with The People.
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