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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  Cover Image Book Book

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: 9781416591054 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1416591052 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781416591061 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1416591060 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: viii, 371 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-355) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: 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.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Hanover Libraries.

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