About “Scarlet Plume”
Scarlet Plume is a 1964 novel by Frederick Manfred, the fourth in The Buckskin Man Tales. It presents the Dakota War of 1862 from the point of view of a woman captured by the Sioux at the start of the war, offering a stylized, sympathetic depiction of the Yankton Sioux whose cultural, anthropological, and historical details are accurate, though the story itself is a romance in the technical sense applied to Hawthorne. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1964