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Author | : S. C. Gwynne |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2010-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416597158 |
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review). 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. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact 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. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.
Author | : Janet Hubbard-Brown |
Publisher | : Chelsea House Publications |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780791019573 |
Examines the history, culture, and future of the Comanche Indians.
Author | : Charles George |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Comanche Indians |
ISBN | : 9780737714746 |
Discusses the Comanche people, their customs, family, organizations, food gathering, religion, war, housing, and other aspects of daily life.
Author | : Richard Gaines |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781577653721 |
Presents a brief introduction to the Comanche Indians including information on their society, homes, food, clothing, crafts, and life today.
Author | : Pekka Hämäläinen |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300151179 |
A study that uncovers the lost history of the Comanches shows in detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they were defeated in 1875.
Author | : Caryn Yacowitz |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2002-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781403405098 |
Chronicles the history, customs, and culture of the Comanches.
Author | : Willard H. Rollings |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Comanche Indians |
ISBN | : 1438103719 |
Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Comanche Indians.
Author | : Herman Lehmann |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Apache Indians |
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Author | : Ernest Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : Ernest Wallace |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2013-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806150203 |
The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the other direction, they were indeed the Lords of the South Plains. For more than a century and a half, since they had first moved into the Southwest from the north, the Comanches raided and pillaged and repelled all efforts to encroach on their hunting grounds. They decimated the pueblo of Pecos, within thirty miles of Santa Fé. The Spanish frontier settlements of New Mexico were happy enough to let the raiding Comanches pass without hindrance to carry their terrorizing forays into Old Mexico, a thousand miles down to Durango. The Comanches fought the Texans, made off with their cattle, burned their homes, and effectively made their own lands unsafe for the white settlers. They fought and defeated at one time or another the Utes, Pawnees, Osages, Tonkawas, Apaches, and Navahos. These were "The People," the spartans of the prairies, the once mighty force of Comanches, a surprising number of whom survive today. More than twenty-five hundred live in the midst of an alien culture which as grown up around them. This book is the story of that tribe—the great traditions of the warfare, life, and institutions of another century that are today vivid memories among its elders. Despite their prolonged resistance, the Comanches, too, had to "come in." On a sultry summer day in June 1875, a small band of starving tribesmen straggled in to Fort Sill, near the Wichita Mountains in what is now the southwestern part of the state of Oklahoma. There they surrendered to the military authorities. So ended the reign of the Comanches on the southwestern frontier. Their horses had been captured and destroyed; the buffalo were gone; most of their tipis had been burned. They had held out to the end, but the time had now come for them to submit to the United States government demands.