Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken to live as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chief and the mother of a young warrior destined to become the great
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
โ Scribed by Meyer, Carolyn
- Book ID
- 107821948
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780152006396
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โฆ Synopsis
At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken to live as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chief and the mother of a young warrior destined to become the great chief Quanah Parker. But in 1861 Cynthia Ann Parker and her infant daughter are recaptured, and returned against their will to a white settlement.
"A skillful examination of how individual identity is determined by cultural and social structures, and of what happens when these are drastically altered."โ Kirkus Reviews
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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 p