Scarlet Plume
Scarlet Plume is a novel by Frederick Manfred, the fourth in The Buckskin Man Tales. The Dakota War of 1862 is shown from the point of view of a woman captured by the Sioux at the beginning of the war. The novel presents the Yankton Sioux from a stylized and sympathetic perspective; although the cultural, anthropological, and historical details are accurate, the story itself is a romance in the technical sense that the word applies to Hawthorne.
References[]
- "Frederick Manfred." Dictionary of Literary Biography 212:185-197. 1999.
- The Frederick Manfred Information Page
Categories:
- Western (genre) novels
- Dakota War of 1862
- Novels set in Minnesota
- Books about Native Americans
- Novels set in the 1860s
- Fiction set in 1862
- 1964 American novels
- 1960s historical novel stubs
- Western (genre) novel stubs