Scarlet Plume

by Frederick Manfred

Book Overview

In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota. Enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451184238
• ISBN13: 9780451184238
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

An alright book, if you like the gory details

If you're looking for a wonderful romance full of passion and wondrous views on the Dakota Indians and their ways of life with a pinch of danger and horrifying depictions of suffering on both ends of the war, this is your book If you're looking for a simple yet tasteful depiction of the struggles of the Dakotas and the Whites interlaced with a good and believable romance to unfold in non graphic depictions, this is not the book you want. The writing in itself is incredible and depicts the details and weaves a tale that sucks you in. However, I wish I had known that it would have graphic themes such as rape and detailed depictions of violence. I know it most likely happened in real history but I'm not the person to sit down to read a full paragraph about a woman getting her stomach slit open and her fetus getting impaled on a branch. Reading that made me sick, it wasn't what I was looking for at all when I ordered it. I was hoping for a book with the struggles of the Whites and the Indians, a story in history, but having it be appropriate for a younger audience and not like I stumbled on my mother's romance novels. It's not trashy at all but it's too graphic and specific for me, I just feel sick after reading some paragraphs and had to stop. I wish I had done a little more research about what the book held before ordering it and I wish there had been a sufficient warning beforehand. I hope this review helps in deciding whether to get this book or not.

Page Turner

This was without a doubt the best book I've ever read. I could not put this book down and read it in one day. The book is very descriptive and well written. I highly recommend this book.

Heartbreaker

I first read this book a number of years ago. I've re-read it now, about five times. It never fails to break my heart.

believebly entertaining

I have been reading loads of books on Indians and whites. Lots of them I enjoy. This one I could not put down. I ordered all of Manfred's other books - those that I could - since they are hard to get. You will not regret this book. I recommend it highly! And actually, I hate this day and age --- I would have been much happier as Judith. Carol King - not the singer - East Fallowfield, Pa.

The most believable Indian massacre I ever read

Although the time prohibited a romance between an American Indian and a white woman, the author made the concept believable and sympathetic. Well written with graphic descriptions. A real page-turner.