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: 2011 (Eighth printing)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends, folds.  Embossed title and author’s name on front cover. Upper and lower front cover corners worn.  Light edge wear.  It’s been read, but only about half-way through.

Notes:  Two parallel narratives–the rise and fall of the Comanches, arguably the most powerful Indian tribe in American history (the Sioux, Apache, Iroquois among others may disagree)–and the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, kidnapped by the Comanches as 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.