I recently started to read this book after many years and am amazed at how wonderfully descriptive the writer is. She makes one see so clearly what she is writing that you feel like you are there with the characters. She makes you see that no matter what race or color, we are all the same. We feel love, hate, happiness, sadness and all other emotions of the human spirit. She lets us see what everyday Indian life was like. I have some favorite books in my library that I read over and over and I am sure I'll read this one again.

This story of Cynthia Ann Parker, is an imposible book to put down. I read it 3 times in one month! I'm reading it again for the fourth time and I am enjoying it just as much as I did the 1,2,and 3 time I read it. Once you start reading it you fall so deep into the book that you feel like you are Cynthia Ann,and are looking into Wanderer's deep black eyes. You will laugh,and be scared, and weep with Cynthia Ann as Lucia St. Clair Robson, tells us the dramatic life of Cynthia Ann. You can picture what each character looks like and you can feel what each feels like. I'm going to read this book probily more than one thousand times more.

I found this book years ago and fell in love with it! I have since read it hundreds of times and am currently reading it again This is a book you can get lost in. It takes you into how her world might have been and settles her and her family into your heart forever. This is a MUST read book that you will want to reread over and over and over again

I first found this book when I was about 15 years old, and I have read it at least ten times since then. At times, I read my favorite parts just for fun. This is one of my all-time favorite books, and is one of the best-written books, in my opinion. I highly recommend it to anyone, but especially to those who have an interest in the white peoples' history with Native Americans. It is a humbling education. But, all in all, it is a wonderfully told romantic story that will warm your heart and bring tears to your eyes each time you read it. Naduah (Cynthia Ann) is an amazing person and should be admired. As should the author of this book.

Then I suggest you pick this book right away and start reading ~~ it will be one book that you will never forget. I know. I re-read it every year and have been doing so for the last 10 years. I first picked it up during a summer working in Yellowstone ~~ that was when I started becoming interested in Native American Indian History ~~ and needing something lighter and easier to read, I started with "Ride the Wind."

This is such a great beginning introduction to reading about the Comanches ~~ even though the book is a novel ~~ it is based on what few known historical facts on Cynthia Parker and the man who she calls husband ~~ Wanderer, one of the last great Comanche chiefs. Robson writes with passion the story of a white girl kidnapped by the Indians in her youth ~~ and how she transformed her ways to those of the tribe. It is a heart-warming story, one that will haunt you for the rest of your life. It also shows a softer side to the Indians that you normally won't see ~~ they're not the savages as people make them to be. I'm not saying that they're not fierce warriors ~~ they are and do practice warfare with a savergy that is different from what historians call "civilised society." But Robson shows the fierce loyalty the Comanche have for their tribe and one another ~~ and their way of life.

Pick this book up. I guarantee that you won't walk away from it without being haunted by the stories that Cynthia and her friends share with you. It is an eye-opener into the way of life then. And it is a heart-breaking story as well. Try it and see. I don't think you'll regret it.

I first came across this book in my school library. It was so good that I had several late fees on it because I wouldn't turn it in until I received mine from amazon!! I have always been fascinated with Native Americans and have been to several Reservations. The best thing about this book, is it tells a wonderful (TRUE!!) history of fascinating people, the Commanches. Once you've read this book, it will stay with you forever. It makes you wish you were Cynthia Ann! Lucia describes everyone and everything in such detail. It tells of the Commanche ways. You learn a lot about their culture and religion. It has a surprising end too. It will make you laugh and cry, it will make you happy and sad. This is a must read for Indian lovers. You will fall in love with the book, just like I did.
PS. special thanks to Lucia St. Clair Robson for writing such a WONDERFUL book. I am so glad we have people like you who can write a book so beautifully!!

I didn't know what to expect when I picked up a copy of GHOST WARRIOR for I had never read any of Lucia Robson's novels. I have a love for Native American and western history, so I thought it was worth a try. I finished the book about a week later, and was simply amazed at what I had read. I thought the book was very well written and was a compelling story that grabbed my attention at the very beginning and has held it ever since.

Ms. Robson's book made a significant impression on me. It inspired me to spend the next several months reading Apache Indian history. I didn't realize how good the book was until I really understood how much research the author had done to be able to tell this story with so much passion, detailed knowledge and competence. The book followed the history of the Apache Indian wars accurately, but it also gave me insight into what her Native American, and American characters must have been like beyond the historical facts. I had to keep reminding myself that her book was a novel, and by definition novels distort history. But I found her depiction of history was in many cases more accurate than some of the histories I have read, and it was exciting, sad, outrageous, fun, and gives a profile in American history that deserves wide attention.

Ms. Robson tells a complex tale that centered around Lozen, an Apache warrior and Shaman of the Chiricahua Apache band. The complexity of the story increases as her novel follows Lozen's long life as a warrior. The Apaches struggled for survival against western expansion pre and post civil war, against the ever present Mexican army, other hostile indians, the invading gold rush and it's inherent lawlessness and the best troops the US Army could deliver.

Lozen, the main character, was one of the only Apache warriors, male or female, to fight with all of the great Apache Chiefs over a 30 year period right up to their final battles. Their mission was survival of their race.

GHOST WARRIOR is an ambitious work, and I not only recommend it to family and friends, I rave about it. I've noticed that Ms Robson's best selling work makes noticeable improvements with each new book. I'm looking forward to her next book; it can't come out soon enough!

A reader in Arlington, VA

I highly recommend Lucia St. Clair Robsons' book "Ghost Warriors". The book not only transports you back to the western historical terrain and people of the late 1800s but Robson gives you a fascinating insight of the Apache Indian Tribe and the white men through her characters of Lozen and Rafe. When reading this book, the people are so real you feel their joy and their pain. It is almost impossible to quit reading this book until the very last page.
"Ghost Warriors" is one of her best reads and it's like a good cup of coffee - you savor every drop and when it's gone you wish for more!
Fans of James Michener, John Jakes and the late Louis L'Amour should add Robson to their must read list. I have!

To be accurate, I'm the writer as well as a reader.
In answer to the objection to using the name Dineh to describe the Apaches when the word itself is Navajo: The Navajo and Apache both speak the Athapascan language. They share vocabulary and many cultural traits such as the ceremony for girls at puberty. James L. Haley, in his book APACHES: A History and Culture Portrait, says they called themselves Tin-eh-ah, The People. They also referred to themselves Indeh and Indah, and Indah is the more often used term.
Also, Apaches do talk to white people about Lozen. One talked to me about her at great length and with no prompting. The old ones, like James Kaywaykla, mention her in their memoirs, and of course she's written about in Apache Mothers and Daughters by Ruth McDonald Boyer and Narcissus Duffy Gayton, a descendent of Lozen's niece.
Thanks for the comments about GHOST WARRIOR. I take note of any inaccuracies and will correct them in the next edition.

Tiana is the most incredible characters I've ever read about. Reading this books made me feel like I was stepping back in time to the days when the Cherokee were free and powerful. Luicia St. Clair Robinson does a remarkable job in researching the people and their culture. In this book you learn about Sam Houston, the development of the Cherokee Syllubus, Tecumseh, and the strengh of a Cherokee Woman.

This was an excellent book, I read years ago. One that changed my life. Who Tiana Rogers was and the way she is portrayed in the book, gave me a role model to follow, in a time when I really needed one. This is a book that touched my soul, and I highly recommend it to anyone who's attention it called. It's a beatiful story and one that you'll never forget.

This book gives you the insight of what it was like to live as a Cherokee in that part of the country. They were loving, beautiful people who lived their life according to what their ancestors had taught. It also gives us the ability to understand what they were forced to leave behind so the White settlements could prosper. And the unfairness that they endured. Tiana is an incrediable character who touches our heart and leaves us remembering her or what she represents, years after the book has been read.

The amount of detail and knowledge of historical Japan is incredible! The time and place and culture comes totally alive; the throw-away characters and descriptions and incidents are as fascinating and well-woven into the story as that of the main characters and action itself. It's a page-turner--utterly fascinating. I was late to work and to all my appointments until I was finished with this wonderful book!

All the research that Lucia St. Clair Robson has done for this book pays huge dividends for her readers. The journey down "Tokaido Road" is a page-turning adventure, a good read; but the real thrill is that the author pulls the reader into feudal Japan in an unforgetable historical experience.

I was so taken with the novel that I followed up by looking for other things written by Lucia St. Clair Robson and came across "Ride the Wind," the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, a woman raised by a Comanche tribe. It was another incredible culture experience. I learned more about Plains Indian culture in "Ride the Wind" than in all my other combined experiences about Indians.

While I read "Tokaido Road" several years ago, my memories of it are still crystal clear, a sure sign that this is one of the best books I've ever read.

Author Robson obviously spent years researching her fact filled, original, exciting novel. The scope of detail far exceeds what one usually expects of romantic fiction. Lady Cat believably rides, walks, and fights her way throughout Japan. The book contains one of the most romantic beach scenes I've ever read: Cat and her opponent duel partially naked under the moonlight. Also there's a scene with a silk scarf . . . breathtaking.

After reading Walk In My Soul and Ride the Wind, this book was disappointing. I finished the book just because I started it and hoped it would kick into gear at some point. This book, with no flair, no characters I loved and a short-cut ending, leaves me not wanting to read her other books. Too bad, I was enjoying the ride.

Robson is one of the very best at characterization. She not only brings Sarah Bowman to vivid life but Jake the mule becomes a major character never to be forgotten. The mirages shimmered on the pages of the book and transformed my cool living room into the heated, dry parched desert that Sarah struggled through. In each of her books Robson has the unsual dexterity of changing her writing style to fit the period. I hate finishing one of her books - and can't wait to start the next one. Pure enjoyment.

If you think your life is hard, just wait till you read this book by Lucia St. Clair Robson ~~ it is so vividly written that I can't believe I didn't rush to the store to buy it after finishing Ride the Wind!!

Sarah Bowman is not your typical heroine nor is she your stereotypical woman. She is fearless ~~ takes no mess from any man nor woman. She rides with the army boys deep into Mexico to fight in the Mexican war. After her husband was killed, she stayed with the army knowing no other life. She started out as a laundress as she had done in the Florida Seminole wars. However, as a favor to an old friend, she started to be the officers' cook and laundress ~~ and was well rewarded with her efforts.

Through lovers, death and victory, Sarah remains with her intergrity as a human being intact. She defends the helpless every chance she can get. She has a bawdy sense of humor ~~ the officers' wives can't help but look at her with disdain. She shows a gentle side of her when needed ~~ she is a remarkable woman in every sense of the word!!

This is a brillantly written book. You won't be disappointed there with Robeson's writing. She writes so vividly that you think you better get a drink of water before the scorching Texas sun kills you. She also writes of a different Texas than the one that the Comanches ruled. It is just a fine story ~~ and it's a quick read. You can't help but be drawn into the story. And you can't help but admire Sarah and wish she was still around. But Texas and Mexico has claimed her as theirs.

I loved RIDE THE WIND and other books by this author, but this one is a struggle for even a history lover to read. I appreciate the exhaustive research she obviously put into the book, but the details obscure the characters and make the novel dull, dull, dull. Unless there are well-developed characters, all the earthy language and descriptions of customs in the 17th century won't make an interesting book. This was supposed to be a historical NOVEL, wasn't it?

Lucia Robson St.Clair's novels have always been in the "can hardly put it down" catagory but this recent novel"Mary's Land" set in early Maryland history was a struggle to read. The story began with the promise of another wonderful historical drama but after the main characters landed in the colonies and began their new life,the story started to wander and never seemed to find its footing again.I was discouraged but glad to read comments from other readers. I learned I was not her only fan who must have been shaking their heads and furrowing their brows as they struggled through this recent novel by a favored author.

Mary's Land brings the old pages of history to life and makes the people live and breathe - Another of Lucia St. Clair Robson's "can't put down books" - and as soon as I've finished I want more - her facts are always correct and she has a wonderful feel for putting them into words that create pictures in the soul.