Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history
(2010)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
978.004974/GWYNNE,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2010
EDITION
First Scribner hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
viii, 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781416591054 (hardcover), 1416591052 (hardcover), 9781416591061 (pbk.), 1416591060 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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 -- Peac, 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