Scarlet Plume is a novel by Frederick Manfred

Frederick Manfred

Frederick Feikema Manfred was a noted Western author.Manfred was born in Doon, Iowa. He was baptized Frederick Feikes Feikema, VII, and he used the name Feike Feikema when he published his first books...

, the fourth in The Buckskin Man Tales

The Buckskin Man Tales

The Buckskin Man Tales is a series of five novels by Frederick Manfred that trace themes through the 19th C Great Plains. The books are* Conquering Horse set before 1800* Lord Grizzly set around 1820-25* Scarlet Plume set in 1862-63...

. The Dakota War of 1862

Dakota War of 1862

The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux. It began on August 17, 1862, along the Minnesota River in southwest Minnesota...

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.