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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 - Brossura
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. Reprint.
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“Transcendent . . . Empire of the Summer Moon is nothing short of a revelation . . . will leave dust and blood on your jeans.”--New York Times Book Review
"In Empire of the Summer Moon, Sam Swynne has given us a rich, vividly detailed rendering of an important era in our history and of two great men, Quanah Parker and Ranald Slidel Mackenzie, whose struggles did much to define it."
-Larry McMurtry
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"In Empire of the Summer Moon, Sam Swynne has given us a rich, vividly detailed rendering of an important era in our history and of two great men, Quanah Parker and Ranald Slidel Mackenzie, whose struggles did much to define it."
-Larry McMurtry
S.C. Gwynne is the author of Hymns of the Republic and the New York Times bestsellers Rebel Yell and Empire of the Summer Moon, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He spent most of his career as a journalist, including stints with Time as bureau chief, national correspondent, and senior editor, and with Texas Monthly as executive editor. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife.
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- EditoreScribner
- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 1416591060
- ISBN 13 9781416591061
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine408
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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: new. In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee a stunningly vivid historical account of the fortyyear battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West centering on Quanah the greatest Comanche chief of them allS C Gwynnes Empire of the Summer Moonspans two astonishing stories The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches the most powerful Indian tribe in American history The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixedblood son Quanah who became the last and greatest chief of the ComanchesAlthough readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and account for the advent of the new weapon specifically designed to fight them the sixgunThe war with the Comanches lasted four decades in effect holding up the development of the new American nation Gwynnes exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism the Civil War the destruction of the buffalo herds and the arrival of the railroadsa historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into beingAgainst this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker a lovely nineyearold girl with cornflowerblue eyes who was kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier in 1836 She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the White Squaw who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860 More famous still was her son Quanah a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legendS C Gwynnes account of these events is meticulously researched intellectually provocative and above all thrillingly told Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history. Codice articolo BKZN9781416591061
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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: new. In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee a stunningly vivid historical account of the fortyyear battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West centering on Quanah the greatest Comanche chief of them allS C Gwynnes Empire of the Summer Moonspans two astonishing stories The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches the most powerful Indian tribe in American history The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixedblood son Quanah who became the last and greatest chief of the ComanchesAlthough readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and account for the advent of the new weapon specifically designed to fight them the sixgunThe war with the Comanches lasted four decades in effect holding up the development of the new American nation Gwynnes exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism the Civil War the destruction of the buffalo herds and the arrival of the railroadsa historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into beingAgainst this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker a lovely nineyearold girl with cornflowerblue eyes who was kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier in 1836 She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the White Squaw who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860 More famous still was her son Quanah a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legendS C Gwynnes account of these events is meticulously researched intellectually provocative and above all thrillingly told Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history. Codice articolo DADAX1416591060
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