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Empire of the Summer Moon : Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powe...

ISBN: 9781416591061 | 1416591060
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Pub. Date: 5/10/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. S. C. Gwynne's 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... MORE
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A New Kind of Warp. 1
A Lethal Paradisep. 12
Worlds in Collisionp. 23
High Lonesomep. 36
The Wolf's Howlp. 53
Blood and Smokep. 73
Dream Visions and Apocalypsep. 89
White Squawp. 102
Chasing the Windp. 119
Death's Innocent Facep. 128
War to the Knifep. 151
White Queen of the Comanchesp. 173
The Rise of Quanahp. 194
Uncivil Warsp. 207
Peace, and Other Horrorsp. 222
The Anti-Custerp. 235
Mackenzie Unboundp. 250
The Hide Men and the Messiahp. 258
The Red River Warp. 274
Forward, in Defeatp. 288
This was a Manp. 308
Resting Here Until Day Breaksp. 316
Notesp. 321
Bibliographyp. 343
Indexp. 356
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S. C. Gwynne is an award-winning journalist who writes for The Dallas Morning News. He has previously served as bureau chief, national correspondent, and senior editor for Time, and as executive editor for Texas Monthly. He attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins and lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Katie, and daughter, Maisie.


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