Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history / S.C. Gwynne.
2010
E99.C85 P3835 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history / S.C. Gwynne.
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
ISBN
9781416591054
1416591052
9781416591061 (pbk.)
1416591060 (pbk.)
1416591052
9781416591061 (pbk.)
1416591060 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Scribner, c2010.
Language
English
Description
viii, 371 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
E99.C85 P3835 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
978.004/974572 B
Summary
Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
A new kind of war
A lethal paradise
Worlds in collision
High lonesome
The wolf's howl
Blood and smoke
Dream visions and Apocalypse
White squaw
Chasing the wind
Death's innocent face
War to the knife
White queen of the Comanches
The rise of Quanah
Uncivil wars
Peace and other horrors
The anti-Custer
Mackenzie unbound
The hide men and the messiah
The Red River War
Forward, in defeat
This was a man
Resting here until day breaks.
A lethal paradise
Worlds in collision
High lonesome
The wolf's howl
Blood and smoke
Dream visions and Apocalypse
White squaw
Chasing the wind
Death's innocent face
War to the knife
White queen of the Comanches
The rise of Quanah
Uncivil wars
Peace and other horrors
The anti-Custer
Mackenzie unbound
The hide men and the messiah
The Red River War
Forward, in defeat
This was a man
Resting here until day breaks.