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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

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ISBN-10: 1416591060

ISBN-13: 9781416591061

Edition: 2010

Authors: S. C. Gwynne

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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 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…    
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 5/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Kim Barnouinnbsp;lives in Californianbsp;with her husband and son. Kim is the author of Skinny Bitch Gets Hitched and Skinny Bitch in Love, and coauthor ofnbsp;the #1 New York Timesnbsp;bestsellingnbsp;Skinny Bitch series, which includes such hit titlesnbsp;as Skinny Bitch, Skinny Bitch in the Kitch,nbsp;Skinny Bastard, Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook, Skinny Bitch Book of Vegan Swaps, and Skinny Bitch Bakery.S.C. Gwynne is a journalist who worked for Time and Texas Monthly. He has written several books including Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History and Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion,…    

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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
Notes
Bibliography
Index