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Summary: Very Heart-wrenching Book
Review: Never has a book touched me so deeply as this one. It had me on the emotion roller coaster the whole way. At the beginning I was hating the Indians for taking her, then I found myself cheering on the blossoming love between her and Wanderer, next I found myself hating the white people, and before I knew it I was in tears and at the end of the book. It was a very moving book. It made me really ashamed to be a white American descendant at times also for what they put Cynthia Ann through after they kidnapped her back from the Indians. I am just very glad I didn't have to live through those times and that things are so much different now. It was really one of the best books I have read. I actually borrowed this from someone to read and now I am going to have to buy it for my own collection so I can read it again some day down the road without having to borrow it again!
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Summary: Touched My Soul
Review: I found this book years ago and fell in love with it! I have since read it hundreds of times and am currently reading it again This is a book you can get lost in. It takes you into how her world might have been and settles her and her family into your heart forever. This is a MUST read book that you will want to reread over and over and over again
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Summary: One of the best - and I have read MANY!
Review: I have given this book as gifts to many friends. It is capitivating! You will feel you are a part of the story as the drama unfolds and you are drawn in to the daily life of the Comanche and specifically Cynthia Ann Parker - their white captive who became the mother of the last great Comanche war chief-Quanah Parker. History unfolds so beautifully in the pages of this book. It is violent, touching, educational and riveting!
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Summary: One of my all time favorites
Review: I have read this book so many times, it is as if the characters are friends. This is such a beautiful story. It is very well written, and so descriptive, and has left a lasting impression on me. It has developed in me an admiration and interest in Native American life that I have kept always. I would recommend this book to everyone with an interest in historical fiction, especially from a woman's perspective. This book would have to be in my top 5 best books I have EVER read.
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Summary: A Must Read
Review: I owned this book a number of years ago and have regretted letting a friend borrow it only to return it in unreadable condition...I must have read it at least 3 times in one year! I found her story to be one of courage and fate, a life that was meant for her but one she had to be introduced to, not born into. She was lucky to have loved and lived with such an amazing race of people, only to be ripped from it too soon. Being of Native Indian descent, I found the detailed information of the People's ways invaluable as a lesson of a way of life that is long gone from history books and generational knowledge. The Native Indians are a race of people to be explored and understood, not categorized or villainized as they are today, and this book helps to dispel negative thoughts and incorrect myths of a race of people so grossly misunderstood for centuries.
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Summary: Reviewer Curious to Understand the Source of Authors Insight
Review: I thought this was an exceptionally well-written historical novel, and I have read it several times since reading it in 1994. What struck me the most was how authentically the author portrays characters living in a tribal situation, as I have lived in a community for over thirty years, and understand something about the kinds of dynamics which are at work between people in these circumstances. I was equally impressed with Walk in My Soul and To Light A Distant Fire, and over the years I have often thought it would be interesting to know more about how Ms. Robson acquired the kind of knowledge of personal interaction which is evident in all her writing. I also lived and worked in Japan for two years, and read Tokaido Road.I would highly recommend Ride the Wind and any of the novels of Lucia St. Clair Robson, whose writing is colorful, gritty, highly literary, and amazingly insightful in its portrayal of real people in real situations.
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Summary: This book reaches out and touches your soul...
Review: When I was ten years old I discovered my Indian heritage and devoured all that I could on the subject. When I bought Ride the Wind and brought it home, I began a journey that changed my life forever. Lucia St. Clair Robson makes you feel like you know Naduah (Cynthia Ann Parker), makes you love her. Knowing Naduah was a real person makes me want to cheer and wrenches my heart all at once- she had white skin, true, but she was in all ways Comanche. The end of her life was so sad, but her courage is an inspiration for us all. I sincerely hope that she and Nocona found each other again on the other side, walking the Hanging Road of stars to Heaven.
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Summary: Ride The Wind
Review: My wife gave me a copy for christmas in the late 70's or early 80's. I am not a big reader of books, I usually have a hard time finding a book that keeps my attention, and I don't finish many of them. "RIDE THE WIND" CAPTURED MY ATTENTION, I did not want to put it down at night and go to bed. It was the first thing I picked up in the evening upon returning home from work. I read it every spare moment I had until finished. Its the best book I have ever read, made me feel as though I were there.
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Summary: just great ...
Review: this is one of the first books I have read in english (the others were Harry Potter books and The Russia House), and I was amazed. I was reading it every day and right into the night until I have finished reading it. And I think I will do it at least once again. Thank you Lucia ...
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Summary: Excellent reading, powerful love story
Review: I found this to be an amazing story of courage, love, and the realities of what life was like for the Native Americans that we were so pompous as to assume were not our equals. The devotion and commitment of the two principals was love at it's finest, and the honor and integrity of the Comanche Tribe should be applauded yet today. The end left me filled with an overwhelming sense of anger and sadness at what had been done to these people and their way of life. Excellent reading, I found it difficult to put down.
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