Ride the Wind

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Summary: It's so great - I want it in hard back!
Review: This was buy far the best book I have ever read. I dug it out last year and gave it to my husband to read - he passed it on and it is still making it's way around our community. I want it in hard cover! Very well written and a pheonominal story!

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Summary: Wonderful history, colorful story-telling, gripping saga
Review: As descendants of the Parker family, we prize this story of Cynthia Ann Parker. The excellent, moving story brings to life the oral history passed down through the family. This book tells a phenominal story of America's development, the inevitable demise of the Indian Nation, and a story of strength, courage, and love. Well done!

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Summary: Words can't describe how wonderful this book is.
Review: I checked this book out at the library for the first time almost 10 years ago. I read it, and as soon as I finished it, started over again. That's how good it was. Since then I have had to purchase two other copies of it. The pages literally fell out from reading it so many times.

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Summary: One of the BEST books I've read
Review: I have never been so moved by a book as I have this one. I wept. This book teaches.

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Summary: One of the Best books I have ever read
Review: This is a wonderful book. I have recomended it to several people who have all enjoyed it. If you liked history in school and love to read about real people in real situations this is a must read book.

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Summary: Thanks
Review: I just wanted to thank those who took the time to comment on RIDE THE WIND. Writing is a solitary occupation. Hearing from others is a pleasure. Hearing from those who didn't like some of my other books is an education.

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Summary: Emotional and accurate account of Commanche life in 1800s.
Review: Having done a fair amount of research on nineteenth century Southern Plains Native American culture, I found this book to be not only very interesting from a purely factual standpoint, but a very moving study of the complex makeup of both the Native Americans and the Texans. As a native Texan, I can say that "Texans are the worst kind of white people" (from the movie "Jeronimo") applies to this book. I recommend it strongly to anyone interested in this period of history.

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Summary: Cynthia Ann Parker, Mother, Wife, Friend, Comanche Spirit
Review: When you first experience Cynthia's world, you can only imagine her terror and fear at being thrust into a world so different from the smothering existence of life with the "white-eyes". Forming a friendship not unlike our own, she befriends "Star Name" in what will be a journey of life, love, challenge and heartbreaks she becomes a young woman, torn between hating the man who captured her, and loving him for the sensuous hunter he becomes to her. As the Fall of Cynthia's life turns to Winter, secure in the fact that she is with her loved ones: Wanderer, Quanah, Pecan, Quail, Gathered Up, Flower, and Star Name, your heart will break. A free spirit all her life, roaming the vast Staked Plains, feeling the wind on her face as she travels with her family, her life is changed forever. You will weep for her, wish you were her, long to change her unavoidable destiny as Cynthia's life comes to a close, in a way that will keep you hoping up to the last page that her life will not end in agony.

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Summary: A riveting Native American account of the Old West!
Review: This is one book that will stay with you years after you've read it. Gripping, compelling and absolutely captivating, the story will move you from emotion to emotion with superb storytelling that is hard to match. Simply fascinating, it is the true story of the Comanche People and their incredible struggle in the last half of the 19th century. This book is comparable to Auel's "Earth Children" series and the Gears' "People" series in the fact that is is written to educate as well as entertain.

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Summary: Best book on earth !!
Review: I now read this book four times and that's not what I normally do! I'm from Germany,so excuse my English. "Wanderer" is also the reason , why me & my friends to go on tour through the U.S.A just to see where he & his people lived ! Absolutely the best book I ever read ! &