Format:
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 / S.C. Gwynne.
Author:
Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.), 1953-
Call Number:
978.004974 Gwynne
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Scribner, 2010.
Description:
viii, 371 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911.
Comanche Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Comanche Indians -- Wars.
Comanche Indians -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945.
West (U.S.) -- Race relations.
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 -- Peac, 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.
ISBN:
9781416591054 (hardcover)
1416591052 (hardcover)
9781416591061 (pbk.)
1416591060 (pbk.)