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

Publisher: Scribners

Pub Date: 2010 (Tenth printing)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition:  Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends, folds.  Lower rear board edge stained (probably water), but is only to the exterior.  Doesn’t extend to interior, board or pages.  Light corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped.  Upper front cover corner at flap has an approx. 1/4″ closed tear, with a fold extending along upper front cover edge.  Interior of dust jacket has several stains extending up spine edge.  Lower rear cover edge feels wrinkled (again, water).

Notes:  Two parallel narratives–the rise and fall of the Comanches, arguably the most powerful Indian tribe in American history (the Sioux, Apache, Iriquois among others may disagree)–and the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, kidnapped by the Comanches as a 9 year old, and her son, Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches.  Their territory covered most of Texas and Oklahoma, the Llano Estacado of eastern New Mexico, into Kansas and as far north as the Platte River of Nebraska.  The Comanches fought the Mexicans, the French, Anglo settlers, only to be forced into submission with the decimation of their principal food source, the buffalo.  BIG history.  Excellent read.