LUCIA ST. CLAIR ROBSON
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida, Lucia St. Clair Robson has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela and a teacher in a Brooklyn ghetto. She lived in Japan for a year and later earned her master’s degree before starting work as a public librarian in Annapolis, Maryland. She lives there now in a rustic 1920s summer community.
Lucia Robson’s library experience of presenting programs to a variety of audiences trained her in the craft of storytelling. She brings to the task of research a reference librarian’s dogged persistence and an insider’s awareness of how to find obscure sources of information.
About RIDE THE WIND, her first novel and a national bestseller within weeks of publication, Lucia Robson says, “I hadn’t reckoned with the power of a story to haunt a person. A summary of Cynthia Ann Parker’s life with the Comanche made me curious to know more. And once I knew more, I was hooked. It became impossible not to write about her.”
Lucia St. Clair Robson’s superb second novel, WALK IN MY SOUL, was published in June 1985. She is currently at work on her third novel and now devotes herself full-time to writing.
Acknowledgments
I want to thank Darlyne and Bill Morales for giving so generously of their enthusiasm and help, and Joseph Cotton for sharing his collection of materials on the Parker story. Thanks also to the members of the Comanche tribe who graciously agreed to correct translations and pronunciations of names and words in their language.
I also want to acknowledge an enormous debt of gratitude to libraries and librarians. They are among this country’s greatest resources.
Table of Contents
Prologue
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER 32
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 35
CHAPTER 36
CHAPTER 37
CHAPTER 38
CHAPTER 39
CHAPTER 40
CHAPTER 41
CHAPTER 42
CHAPTER 43
CHAPTER 44
CHAPTER 45
CHAPTER 46
CHAPTER 47
CHAPTER 48
CHAPTER 49
CHAPTER 50
CHAPTER 51
CHAPTER 52
CHAPTER 53
CHAPTER 54
CHAPTER 55
CHAPTER 56
CHAPTER 57
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