Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Paperback)

from HistReader

If you have read various reviews of Empire of the Summer Moon which proclaim this is a I-could-not-put-it-down sort of book, they are truthful! I too read this book in just a few days, easily captivated by the history and even-handedness of S.C. Gwynne's writing. In the beginning of the book, Mr....

from Dave

i loved the book, the price,and the prompt delivery.

from msf59

Cynthia Ann Parker, age nine, was kidnapped by a Comanche war band, from a fort in north central Texas. She spent twenty-four years with this group, marrying a Comanche chief and raising a family, including a boy, named Quanah, who became one of the fiercest warriors in Native American history. C...

from JeffPgh

Tells the (ultimately sad) tale over several centuries of the rise and fall of the Comanche tribe. At the same time it focuses on one woman who was kidnapped by the Comanches as a child in the 1800s and became the mother of (arguably) the last key chief of the tribe in their final years of freedo...

from nmele

Part biography, part history and all very sympathetic to injustices done to Native Americans, Gwynne does not pretty up the facts about the Comanches' cruel treatment of their enemies, primitive lifestyle, or sudden rise to power in the seventeenth century. He does, however, place it in context, ...