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Summary:

Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.

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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Author/Creator:

Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.), 1953-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Empire of the summer moon: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history [by Gwynne, S.C.]

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

1848-1945

Comanche Indians

Frontier and pioneer life

Race relations

Comanche Indians — Kings and rulers

West United States

Genres:

Biographies

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-355) and index.

Physical Description:

viii, 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

E99.C85 P3835 2010

ISBNs:

9781416591054
1416591052
9781416597155 (ebook)
1416597158 (ebook)
9781416591061 (pbk.)
1416591060 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009049747

OCLC Numbers:

424555364