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Title: Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker by Carolyn Meyer ISBN: 0-15-295602-6 Publisher: Gulliver Books Paperbacks Pub. Date: 15 October, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: One of the saddest books I ever read
Comment: This book is the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, who at age nine, is kidnapped by Comanche Indians from her home in Texas. The book begins twenty-five years later when Cynthia Ann is recaptured by Texan rangers and returned to her Texan family. Finally, after twenty-five years of living with these people, she is once again kidnapped by park rangers and returned to the Parker family. She no longer remembers English or her original Texan customs. She cannot forget her beloved husband Peta Nocona, who was a courageous Comanche warrior, or her two sons Quanah and Pecos. To her advantage she is with her baby daughter, Topsannah when she is taken back to the Parkers, so she continues to teach her the Comanche ways. Topsannah's name is soon changed to Prairie Flower, its English version, and later to Tecks Ann so that she will better fit into the society. They both try to cooperate and learn these odd "white" ways. Tecks Ann has a much easier time getting accustomed to these customs, but Cynthia Ann must continue to learn how to cook, read, write, and sew by her twelve-year-old niece Lucy. As time goes on Lucy makes Cynthia Ann a promise that she is not sure she can keep in a time of hardships for everyone. She must leave the Parker's house and live with her brother to get away from her pregnant sister-in-law.
This book is one of the saddest book I ever read, but it is easy to enjoy anyway.
Rating: 4
Summary: Cross Cultural Adoption
Comment: I bought two books about Cynthia Ann Parker, one the historical record and this historical fiction for my daughter, 14. As an adolescent dealing with cross cultural adoption issues, she identified with Cynthy Ann's dilemma and was able to talk about it with her mother. I was familiar with the story but was interested in the details. I read "The Searchers" as a boy but I have always been more interested in the point of view of the original land lords. Another book that deals with native american cross cultural adoption issues is "Pigs in Heaven" by that woman who is so famous for "The Poisonwood Bible" now.
Rating: 4
Summary: thoughtprovoking yet sad
Comment: This book wieghed heavy on my heart. In short, a 9 year old white girl, was taken away by Indians, who also killed her family. As years go on, she adapts and "turns injun" . She falls in love with a warrior and bears 3 kids { 2 boys and a girl, the adorable prarie flower}. After 25 years rangers catch her and take her back to whats left of her original family. She doest like it. She cant adapt back to the white ways of life. She doesnt trust whites and they dont trust her, except young Lucy who tries to help her adapt.
I guess I kept hoping she would come to love her original family again , but it never happened. Her life was completly miserable. This book was sad and kept getting sadder until the bitter end. The book was good but those looking for a happy ending may not like it.
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Title: Ride the Wind by LUCIA ST CLAIR ROBSON ISBN: 0345325222 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 November, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Last Comanche Chief : The Life and Times of Quanah Parker by Bill Neeley ISBN: 0471160768 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 16 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Cynthia Ann Parker : The Life and Legend (Southwestern Studies, No. 92) by Margaret Schmidt Hacker ISBN: 0874041872 Publisher: Texas Western Press Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870 by Frederick Drimmer ISBN: 0486249018 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 1985 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Killing Cynthia Ann: A Novel by Charles Brashear ISBN: 0875652093 Publisher: Texas Christian University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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