Betty Campbell

Keeper of the Flame Betty Campbell

Born in a time when ignorance andsuperstition permeated their culture, Moon Flower was doomed within herisolated "Tribe with no name."¿ Heraffliction was misunderstood, casting her into the shadows where she was forcedto live until brutal events practiced by a rogue 'man of the cloth' set her ona trail that did not exist, and eventually to a conditional freedom.¿ At her side rode the handsome Comanchewarrior whose life she had saved, her young son and the elusive wolf thatbecame a part of her life. Across the burning wasteland theyloved as they traveled in search of the warrior's tribe.¿ Accepted with open arms, again she saved thelife of the "God-man with pieces of the sky for eyes."¿ With his life hanging in the balance herspirit wraps around him to give him strength to live beyond the torture thatbefell him. Safely within the Comanche arms, Flower finally 'became', and traveled beside her husband on the war trail aswell as into captivity.¿ Becoming atrusted confidant of the war chief, she enjoyed a rare position from which shecould influence the decisions made on behalf of the entire tribe, even to thepoint of saving them when her belly was swollen with her husband's seed and'death appeared riding on a black horse'.¿Having been forced to cross the border into the hostile land of 'thehome of the Redman', later to become Oklahoma,she discovers that her greatest challenge was as yet still before her. Flower's greatest loss becomesher greatest find when she is blessed four-fold.¿ Out of the clay banks of Red Rivershe taught the Comanche women to build houses and homes when there were no morebuffalo to feed and house them and the long promised government supplies wereeven longer in arriving to feed the hungry and naked Native Americans. With unbelievable strength andperseverance the bravery of this small woman set the standard that the pioneerwoman became known for, even as the women of today stand toe to toe with theever increasing challenges that threaten their home, fam