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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 History by S. C. Gwynne (2011, Trade Paperback)

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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 History by Gwynne, S. C. [Paperback]

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*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.

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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1416591060
ISBN-13
9781416591061
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202447892

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Book Title
Empire of the Summer Moon : Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Author
S. C. Gwynne
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Native American
Publication Year
2011
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
12.9 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
E99.C85p3835 2010
Reviews
"Transcendent . . . Empire of the Summer Moon is nothing short of a revelation . . . will leave dust and blood on your jeans."-- New York Times Book Review, Transcendent . . . Empire of the Summer Moon is nothing short of a revelation . . . will leave dust and blood on your jeans.-- New York Times Book Review, "In Empire of the Summer Moon , Sam Swynne has given us a rich, vividly detailed rendering of an important era in our history and of two great men, Quanah Parker and Ranald Slidel Mackenzie, whose struggles did much to define it." -Larry McMurtry
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2009-049747
Dewey Decimal
978.004/974572 B
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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5 out of 5 stars
by wagman1Jun 28, 2021
Top favorable review
Riveting, visceral, brutal and enlightening.
This book needs to be mandatory reading in history classes. In a world of revisionist history, which claims that the white people were bad and the Indians good, this book easily dispels those myths. This book details the capture, treatment and torture of other Indians and white people by the savage Comanches. Included is the horrible attack and the kidnapping, butchery and torture of the Parker family, who had settled in Texas. The author reveals that the Comanche kidnapped girls because the Comanches needed to repopulate their population because Comanche women had a high occurrence of miscarriage from horseback riding.
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3 out of 5 stars
by dp4meDec 16, 2016
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This book has a lot of history and I found a lot of the history and fact new to me, however the book was extremely hard to follow and I had to retrace previously read material to follow and even then parts were hard to connect to the thought being discussed. The dialog jumped from one time to another, as much as 200 years, within a couple of pages. There are far too many tribes and Indian groups to try to follow. In my opinion there was fat too much rambling back and forth in about the first third to half of the book. I usually read a book a week, this one took almost three weeks. The historical information could have been covered in a more comprehensive dialog in a third of the book.
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5 out of 5 stars
by erielarnedJul 13, 2016
Best book I have read...ever!!!
This is historically accurate, but riveting account will make you understand what white settlers moving west were risking. It also speaks of perhaps the saddest personal story of the Old West, that of Cynthia Ann Parker, taken by Comanches as a 9 year old, losing her entire family in the Comanche raid and then having same done to her some 25 years later by whites... Get this book...You will not be disappointed!
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5 out of 5 stars
by younjo33Aug 20, 2019
Well chosen words for a title of a great documented compilation of American history.
One gets the big picture with this reading. You understand what is happening around the Comanche domain from Mexico (inlacing the Spanish conquest) to Colorado and east of the Mississippi. The Civil War and its impact on the westward migration is most intriguing. Especially well done is the interaction (friendly and aggressive of the Comanche nation and its surrounding native American tribes that lived completely around this large prairie empire. For one who has a deep respect for America's native people this is a must read. It is hard to conceive of a "Christian Nation" committing such atrocious evil on our fellow brothers and sisters. the closing pages left me with a lump in my throw and tears in my eyes. I placed it among several dozen other books I own about North American Indians.Read full review
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5 out of 5 stars
by rumpot69Jan 10, 2020
if you like all things western & want to know about our country..this is the book for it
it gives a personal look at history with a lot I didn't know..the book was a great value money wise well spent few dollars!! as I have indian heritage..it was also a personal thing for me.
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Best book I have read...ever!!!

Well chosen words for a title of a great documented compilation of American history.

if you like all things western & want to know about our country..this is the book for it

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