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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American Hist
[Buy it!] | S. C. Gwynne | USD 13.90
(Tue May 21 14:29:55 2024) | Biblio | Books of the World | New York: Scribner, May Date: 2011. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to lower rear corner, otherwise As New. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 371 pages plus reader's guide. Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award. A stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. It was the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. 2011. Scribner ISBN 1416591060 9781416591061 [US] |
