Title: Where the Broken Heart Still Beats
Description: At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken to
live as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chief
and the mother of a young warrior destined to become the great chief Quanah Parker.
But in 1861, Parker and her infant daughter are recaptured and returned against their
will to a white settlement. This moving story is a riveting examination of the conflicts
between Native Americans and white settlers.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Comanche Indians, Indian captivities, Frontier and pioneer life
Places: North America
People: Cynthia Ann Parker (1827?-1864)
Time periods: 19th century