

And she doesn’t get any brighter as the story wears on.


Miranda is eighteen, but she thinks and acts like a twelve-year-old. On the second page, however, she has a nasty run-in with reality when she’s spotted by, you guessed it, a Cheyenne raiding party. Daddy is worried about Cheyenne raiding parties, but Miranda knows that’s silly after all, she’s lived on the frontier all her life and knows how to take care of herself. Cavalry officer in order to visit a friend. Annoyed because her father is “overprotective,” Miranda Thurston escapes from the fort her daddy commands as a U.S. It’s evident from the opening page of Miranda and the Warrior that we are dealing with a TSTL heroine.
