WORLD OF UTEP'S FIRST ANNUAL:

"NATIVE AMERICANS AS WARM AND LOVING FUZZIES BOOK BLURB AWARD!"


UTEP Dept of English: Southwest Fiction, Spring 2004.

Book blurb for: Lucia St. Clair Robson, Ride the Wind.

"The astonishing, beautifully written epic story of a white woman who became a Comanche, of Indians free in spirit, at one with the land, driven by fate to

Ride the Wind

"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 hearteat 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."