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In his compelling history of the American West, S.C. Gwynne focuses on a forty-year period in which the Comanche tribe rose to prominence, skillfully held the American soldiers at bay, only to go down, eventually, in defeat. Gwynne's well-researched and well-told account provides fascinating information about the lives of the Comanches and their skill in battle, as well as essential facts about the delayed opening of the West. While keeping an eye on the major historical events--including several key wars--he focuses on two people: Cynthia Ann Parker--a pioneer woman captured by the Comanches and who later chose to live among the Comanches as her family--and her son, Quanah, who became a formidable Comanche chief. Gwynne packs a lot of detail into this popular history, as he both enlightens and holds the reader's interest.

Journalist S.C. Gwynne takes a novel approach to further unraveling the always enthralling, yet contentious, myth of the founding of the American West, using the half-white/half-Comanche chief Quanah Parker and his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, to explore the largely forgotten Texas-Indian Wars, which lasted nearly the entirety of the 19th century. Spun with a vivid, occasionally thrilling narrative style, EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON describes how the fierce, dogged pride of the mighty Comanche tribe led to epic clashes with white settlers on the Texas plains and hindered for four decades America's initial attempts to bring the new and intoxicating theory of manifest destiny westward.

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Author:S.C. Gwynne
Language:English
Publisher:Tantor Media Inc
Format:Audio
ISBN-10:1400166551
ISBN-13:9781400166558

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Narrated by:David Drummond
Edition Description:Unabridged

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Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:3.2 oz

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A stunning historical account of the battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West---in the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.


Describes in sometimes brutal detail the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the Comanche kidnapping of a white 9-year-old girl, who grew up to love her captors, marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior. Read by David Drummond. Simultaneous.

Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a forty-year war over territory, beginning with the Comanche kidnapping of a white nine-year-old girl, who grew up to love her captors, marry a Comanche chief, and have a son, Quanah, who became a legendary warrior.

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"EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON isn't just an biography. It's a forceful argument about the place of Native American tribes in geopolitical history."
(06/13/2010)

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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

by S.C. Gwynne

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A stunning historical account of the battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West—in the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

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Few people realize that the Comanche Indians were the greatest warring tribe in American history. Their forty-year battle with settlers held up the development of the new nation. Empire of the Summer Moon tells of the rise and fall of this fierce, powerful, and proud tribe, and begins in 1836 with the kidnapping of a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower blue eyes named Cynthia Ann Parker. She grew to love her captors and eventually became famous as the "White Squaw." She married a powerful Comanche chief, and their son, Quanah, became a warrior who was never defeated and whose bravery and military brilliance in the Texas panhandle made him a legend as one of the greatest of the Plains Indian chiefs.In this vivid piece of writing, S. C. Gwynne describes in sometimes brutal detail the savagery of both whites and Comanches and, despite the distance of time, demonstrates how truly shocking these events were, juxtaposed against the haunting story of an unforgettable figure of a woman caught between two worlds.

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  • ISBN 1400166551
  • ISBN-13 9781400166558
  • Title Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
  • Author S.C. Gwynne
  • Format MP3 CD
  • Publisher Tantor Media
  • Dimensions5.3 in. x 0.6 in. x 7.6 in.

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