Feather in the Wind

by Beverly Butler

Set in 1832, this is about an adolescent girl with several problems that she learns to overcome.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

Also known as
Beverly K. Olsen
Was married to Theodore Victor Olsen

Beverly was a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a long time resident of Rhinelander. Beverly had planned to be an artist, but an impending blindness impelled her to learn typing in order to rejoin her high school class. For practice, she began typing remembered stories which led to her inventing stories.
In 1954, she graduated cum laude from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee where she wrote her first young novel, Song of the Voyager which later won Dodd Mead's
Seventeenth Summer Literary Competition. Beverly earned her M.A. Degree from Marquette University in 1961 and she returned to Mount Mary in 1962 to teach writing there until 1974. Beverly moved to Sun Prairie before marrying fellow Wisconsin author, Theodore Victor (T.V.) Olsen, and moving to Rhinelander in 1976. T V Olsen died in 1993 and she continued to live
in Rhinelander till her death in 2007 at the age of 75. She is survived by her niece and nephews. Her novel "Light a Single Candle" was based on her own experiences with blindness. The sequel was "Gift of Gold". She used her other senses and her brilliant imagination to create her vivid stories which are still enjoyed by her loyal readers today.

Sources
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Reviews

[Laura Aase · Rating 3 out of 5]

Retro reread #3. Alex lives with her horrible cruel crippled father and Vivian, the lazy servant. She rescues David and his maybe niece Julie when they dump in the river. She is blind. She is supposedly his dead brother’s child but there are big questions about her identity and David is searching for answers. Conflict is Chief Black Hawk who is on the warpath and trying to get her father to safety at the fort. Is Julie really David’s niece?

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this so long ago that I don't recall the date, and don't recall enough of the content to review.