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Ride the wind: the story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the last days of the Comanche

โœ Scribed by Lucia St Clair Robson


Book ID
100224553
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books
Year
1982 (1993
Tongue
en-US
Weight
499 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0307801284

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โœฆ Synopsis


In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman. It is also the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever....

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