Lucia St. Clair Robson is an American historical

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. She was married to science fiction novelist

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. She is a 1982 recipient of the

Spur Award for Best Novel of the West This is a list of the works of fiction which have won the Spur Award for Best Novel of the West: * 1953 - Best Historical Novel: "The Wheel and the Hearth" by Lucia Moore * 1954 - Best Historical Novel: "Journey by the River" by John Prescott * 195 ...

Works

#'' Last Train from Cuernavaca'' - inspired by two very different women, one Zapotec and one English, who participated in the Mexican Revolution. #'' Shadow Patriots'' - The story of a

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that spied for George Washington, including a woman known only as "355" #'' Ghost Warrior'' - The story of the Apaches and Lozen, revered warrior and shaman. #'' Ride the Wind'' - Cynthia Ann Parker's life with the Comanches. #'' The Tokaido Road'' - A chase up the fabled Tokaido Road, set against the backdrop of feudal Japan's most famous event, the revenge of the forty-seven ronin. #'' Mary's Land'' - A novel of the rowdy Maryland frontier of 1638. #''

Fearless, A Novel of Sarah Bowman ''Fearless, A Novel of Sarah Bowman'' is a 1998 novel of historical fiction by Lucia St. Clair Robson. The novel tells how Sarah Bowman arrived in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1845, to work as a laundress for the army that Zachary Taylor had asse ...

'' - Six-foot-tall laundress, Sarah Bowman, makes a name for herself in the Mexican War. #'' Walk in My Soul'' - A fictional account of young Sam Houston's life with the Cherokee Indians and with their Beloved Woman, Tiana Rogers. #'' Light a Distant Fire'' - Osceola and his beleaguered people fight the U.S. Army to a standstill in the swamps of Florida in 1840. #"A Chance of a Ghost" short story in '' Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary''

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Talking with...Lucia St. Clair Robson
by John Coyne, Peace Corps Writers.
Novelist Taps History for Story Set in 17th Century Maryland
by L. Peat O'Neil,

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, September 14, 1995. Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American women novelists American historical novelists Novelists from Florida Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Women historical novelists {{US-novelist-stub