01574cam a2200265 4500 264306838 TxAuBib 20160119120000.0 940125s1982||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 82090215 9780345291455 pbk. $6.95 034529145X pbk. $6.95 (OCoLC)733640072 TxAuBib Robson, Lucia St. Clair. Ride the Wind : The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the Last Days of the Comanche / Lucia St. Clair Robson. New York : Ballantine, 1982. 562 p. : ill., map. In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians from her family's settlement. She grew up with them, mastered their ways, and married one of their leaders. Except for her brilliant blue eyes and golden mane, Cynthia Ann Parker was in every way a Comanche woman. They called her Naduah—Keeps Warm With Us. She rode a horse named Wind. This is her story, 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. It will thrill you, absorb you, touch your soul, and make you cry as you celebrate the beauty and mourn the end of the great Comanche nation. 20000801. Parker, Cynthia Ann 1827?-1864 Fiction. Comanche Indians Fiction. Indians of North America Captivities Fiction. TXHAM