Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History 9781416591054, 9781416591061, 9781416597155, 1416591052

In the tradition ofBury My Heart at Wounded Knee,a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between

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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
 9781416591054, 9781416591061, 9781416597155, 1416591052

Table of 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 --
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.

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