Empire of the summer moon
Subtitle: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history
By: S.C. Gwynne.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781416591061
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
Genres: Biography
Description: 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: title: A new kind of war; title: A lethal paradise; title: Worlds in collision; title: High lonesome; title: The wolf's howl; title: Blood and smoke; title: Dream visions and Apocalypse; title: White squaw; title: Chasing the wind; title: Death's innocent face; title: War to the knife; title: White queen of the Comanches; title: The rise of Quanah; title: Uncivil wars; title: Peace and other horrors; title: The anti-Custer; title: Mackenzie unbound; title: The hide men and the messiah; title: The Red River War; title: Forward, in defeat; title: This was a man; title: Resting here until day breaks.