Ride the Wind

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Summary: I'm recommending this book to my college daughter.
Review: I read this book about 15 years ago and have been haunted by it ever since! I have just recommended it to my daughter for her freshman Honors English class at the University. They are studying Native American literature and are supposed to choose a book to read and then write and present a paper making connections from the book to the other literature they have read in the class. I remembered the title and was thrilled when I was able to find it at Amazon!

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Summary: Few books have moved me as much as this powerful story.
Review: Tears welled in my eyes at several places

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Summary: Captivating story, a real page turner!
Review: An excellent story of a young girl growing up as a captive with the Comanche nation. From page 1 Cynthia's story keeps you enthralled with her life as Naduah. You meet her family and friends, and fall in love with her as she grows to womanhood and marrys Wanderer. In the end you'll cry as you feel her die as a white woman again. A definite must read, one of my real favorites

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Summary: I fell for it.
Review: I really didn't know if I would be able to read it. However, once I read it I fell in love with it. Mostly because it really tried to tell the story of Cynthia Ann Parker

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Summary: Two thumbs up!!
Review: This book is more than just a romance, though that aspect was wonderfully written! It gives one an insight to a culture that is just as mysterious to many people today as it was to the original settlers! You get to see not the stereotypical noble savage view of the Indians but a more well-rounded approach! It really is well worth the time. I couldn't put it down! It's one of those books that you can read over and over again and not only still enjoy it but also get something else out every time!

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Summary: This was the vurry bust buk i evr red in mie hole life!
Review: Considering that I read this book a long time ago, and have read many other books this is still the best book I have read. It was a very sad romance in the time of the indians and settlers in the plains.

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Summary: One Of The Best Books I've Ever Read
Review: I read this book a few years ago and it hooked me from the start. At the beginning I wasn't sure what to expect as the opening scene was a family being massacred and a young girl being kidnapped. But as the kind family to which the young girl Cynthia is given takes her into their heart and shows her the ways of the Comanche, I became drawn into the learning experience of the Comanche people or as the book depicts "The People". It was quite an emotional experience to see the young girl Cynthia transform into the Woman Nadua. When Nadua or Cynthia ultimately marries and falls in love with Nocona I was even further drawn into the book especially. It was interesting to see that a relationship between a man and woman developed from devastation to deep love. The end was painful to read as the couple became torn apart. It actually got me in heart. This was one of the rare occasions that I cried at the end of a book. I literally had to put the book down a couple of times towards the end just to dry the tears. One could say that because of the book, while I was in the Texas Panhandle in 1997, I took a special trip to Palo Duro Canyon (where a later portion of the book took place) and found the area to be amazing. I looked around and wondered where Nadua and Nocona's son Quanah roamed. It is an amazing area where I lost my heart. Hopefully ya'll will enjoy the book as much as I did. I have subsequently bought a few more of Lucia's books as she has become one of my favorite authors.

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Summary: Moving!
Review: This is a moving story. It really takes you into the every day life of Cynthia Ann, or Nadua. It will spark an interest in this period of history, native americans, and the white captives. My first of Ms. Robson's - I'm rereading after 10 years. Lucia St Clair Robson is a talented writer.


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Summary: This study in cultural differences is relevent today
Review: Having first read this book in 1998, I took it off the shelf the other day and began skipping through and reading various chapters. As before, I soon became engrossed in Ms. Robson's wonderful story telling and had to force myself to put the book down just to eat or go to work. As I read of Cynthia Ann Parker's "rescue" during the Pease River Massacre and the dysphoria that was her life from that point on, I became aware of how relevant her story is today.

During Ms. Parker's remaining days in Texas, the white culture was so convinced of their superiority over the Native Americans that they absolutely were incapable of comprehending how someone could prefer that existence over their own and basically wrote her mindset off as the result of brainwashing-either intentional or unintentional.

Today, we see those in our culture that believe that all people in the world want and need the same values that we have-whether they know it or not. Not that I want to impose my beliefs and values on other cultures, but I have found that I, too, cannot comprehend how those of some other cultures would choose their way of life over ours. But they do. Sometimes, as was the case between the Comanche and the Texans, there is such a rift between the two worlds that there can be no point of reference. This book has reminded me that, knowing that such a rift can exist, our actions toward others should be tempered by that knowledge. There is no universal "right way" as some would have us believe. What each of us believes is the result of some form of brainwashing-either intentional or unintentional.

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Summary: Fabulous retelling of Cynthia Ann Parker's story
Review: As a distant cousin of the Parkers, I'm pleased to endorse this splendid historical novel. The author's care to a truthful portrayal of both sides of the Comanche-White conflict in Texas is evident. The romance between Cynthia Ann/Naduah and Wanderer is of course highly entertaining, but this novel is carefully researched and also gives a fascinating look into Comanche culture and Texas pioneer life. Well worth the read!