Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Historical / General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:151
  • eBook ISBN:9781623090562

Red Deer

Life Among the Mandans

Overview

When her convoy is attacked and everyone massacred, a young French girl, Anne, manages to flee across the unknown praries where she is later found by scouts from a Mandan hunting party. Taken in by the tribe, Anne, who is given the name Red Deer by her 'captors' because of burns sustained during her flight and her red hair, must learn their ways and language in order to survive. Life is hard but good until the smallpox epidemic almost wipes out the Indian tribes. Surviving, along with a few others from her Mandan family, Anne finds love in the arms of a Pawnee warrior and must decide, when her brother Pierre finds her and tells her their mother survived the massacre, whether to go live among her people, or to stay with her new family.
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Description

When her convoy is attacked and everyone massacred, a young French girl, Anne, manages to flee across the unknown praries where she is later found by scouts from a Mandan hunting party. Taken in by the tribe, Anne, who is given the name Red Deer by her 'captors' because of burns sustained during her flight and her red hair, must learn their ways and language in order to survive. Life is hard but good until the smallpox epidemic almost wipes out the Indian tribes. Surviving, along with a few others from her Mandan family, Anne finds love in the arms of a Pawnee warrior and must decide, when her brother Pierre finds her and tells her their mother survived the massacre, whether to go live among her people, or to stay with her new family.
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About The Author

Writing under the pen name of Aimee Lamb (her Welsh grandmother's name) she was conceived and raised in Geneva, Switzerland where she graduated from the International School. She was born and also attended boarding school and university in England, where she read History and Latin at the University of London. In school and college she acted in, wrote and directed plays, reviews and skits. Mrs. Lamb also writes screenplays, short stories as well as historical novels. She has worked in Foreign Languages, (U. of Maryland), Telecommunications, (I.T.U.), Sales, (I.L.O.), co-owned and run an Interior Design Firm and a small restaurant/tea room/grocery store/gift shop specializing in British foods and goods, Bit O' Britain, as well as worked for a privately owned corporation, all three in the San Diego area.. She has two sons, a daughter and two grand children, and is married to John, a USAF Retired Colonel. She still coaches and plays soccer. In her spare time she likes to read, travel, go to the movies, the theatre, opera, work in her garden, play bridge and loves to cook and entertain.
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