Scarlet Plume

By: Frederick Manfred

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurs in Southern Minnesota. Hundreds of whites are killed. Women are taken captive. Taken captive by the Sioux, Judith Raveling is given to Scarlet Plume, one of the many warriors who know their cause is lost.

Caught between the men who would wage war ruthlessly and his own judgment, which tells him how dearly the Sioux will pay for every white person killed, Scarlet Plume tries to save as many as he can. Defying the dangers of a pitiless war, he returns Judith to the safety of her people. Soon she must try to save him.

©1964 Frederick Feikema Manfred (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Haunting.

It puzzles me how Mr Manfred could know all these historical details. It’s like he was there and seen it all first hand. I’ve never felt this way with an author. He is extraordinarily skilled. A truly awesome tale. What a movie it would make!

turns into a Walmart romance novel

the story starts off very well, similar to Larry McMurtry and its darkness but even darker. a little over halfway through the book it completely changes tone and becomes a romance. the namesake of the book becomes super hero and is able to outrun antelope and kill the cougar his bare hands. really good story up until that point but it kind of lost me there