Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.S C Gwynne s Empire of the Summer Moon spans 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 mixed blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches Although readers may be 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 six gun The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation Gwynne s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine year old girl with cornflower blue 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 legend S C Gwynne s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. 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Gwynne [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr As a historian, I will rarely give a general or popular historythan 3 stars Much the same way I will never say an historian And no matter the amount of research that goes into popular history, it hardly ever seems to merit so much praise And that is because it answers no questions, asks no new questions, puts forth none of its own theories, and has no one singular hypothesis This book, although a fantastic, sweeping history of the Comanche, it is not a work to be discussed as academi As a historian, I will rarely give a g...The desert wind would salt their ruins and there would be nothing, no ghost or scribe, to tell any pilgrim in his passing how it was that people had lived in this place and in this place had died Cormac McCarthy The date was October 3rd, 1871 Six hundred soldiers and twenty Tonkawa scouts had bivouacked on a bend of the Clear Fork of the Brazos, about one hundred and fifty miles west of Fort Worth, Texas Though they did not know it at the time their presence marked the beginning of The desert wind would salt their ruins and there would be nothing, no ghost or scribe, to tell any pilgrim in his passing how it was that people had lived in this place and in this place had died Cormac McCarthy The date was October 3rd, 1871 Six hundred soldiers and twenty Tonkawa scouts had bivouacked on a bend of the Clear Fork of the Brazos, about one hundred and fifty miles west of Fort Worth, Texas Though they did...I quit reading this book after the fourth chapter As it is one of the most racist books I have ever read, I am baffled by the glowing reviews it receives For your consideration Thus the fateful clash between settlers from the culture of Aristotle, St Paul, Da Vinci, Luther, and Newton and aboriginal horsemen from the buffalo plains happened as though in a time warp as though the former were looking backward thousands of years at premoral, pre Christian, low barbarian versions of themselves I quit reading this book after the fourth chapter As it is one of the most racist books I have ever read, I am baffled by the glowing reviews it receives For your consideration Thus the fateful clash between settlers from the culture of Aristotle, St Paul, Da Vinci, Luther, and Newton and aboriginal horsemen from the buffalo plains happened as though in a time warp as though the former we...Empire of the Summer Moon Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C Gwynne, first published in 2010, tells the entertaining and informative, somewhat scholarly account of the Comanche tribe Gwynne uses the histories of Cynthia Parker the historic inspiration for Natalie Wood s character in John Wayne s The Searchers and the Mary McDonnell character Stands With a Fist in Kevin Costner s film Dances With Wolves and her son Empire of the Summer Moon Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C Gwynne, first published in 201...Sam Gwynne s History of the Spanish, the Texans, the Americans and the Comancheria Sam C Gwynne attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins Universities He s spent most of his life as a journalist He spent almost twenty years as a correspondent, bureau chief, and Chief Editor for twenty years Gwynne s work has appeared in the New York Times, Harpers, California, Texas Monthly, among other publications Gwynne was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for Empire of the Summer Moo Sam Gwynne s History of the Spanish, the Texans, the Americans and the Comancheria Sam C Gwynne attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins Universities He s spent most of his life as a journalist He spent almost twenty years as a correspondent, bureau chief, and Chief Editor for twenty years Gwynne s work has appeared in the New York Times, Harpers, California, Texas Monthly, among other pu...Empire of the Summer Moon Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C Gwynne is full of great research and racism This book has only a tiny, tiny mention about Quanah This book is very misleading by the title and blurb It should be called, How the Horrible Redman was Subdued by Mighty Whiteman Only once did it mention how James Parker, the head man that thought it would be a great idea to build a home in the middle of In Empire of the Summer Moon Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in A...I bought this at the airport, it looked like a good read A chapter or two in the language and stereotypes became really disturbing His version of human history, summed up in two pages is just bizarre.The language, and long discredited concepts that Gwynne prattles along with are apalling Higher civilizations , of which the Plains Indians were three to four millennia behind And oh yes, the Native Americans were premoral, pre Christian, low barbarian versions of Europeans And of course t I bought this at the airport, it looked like a good read A chapter or two in the language and stereotypes became really disturbing His version of human history, summed up in two pages is just bizarre.The language, and long discredited concepts that Gwynne prattles along with are apalling Higher civilizations , of which the Plains Indians were three to four millennia behind And oh yes, the Native Americans were premoral, pre Christian, low barbarian v...Other reviewers claim that this is an unbiased historical account is laughable This is yet another telling of a war written by those who won it Gwynne states that he constructed the book using a large number of firsthand accounts from the era The firsthand accounts written are naturally all of settlers and the military, and all of them appalled and offended that anyone could dare attack them and deny the greatness of Manifest Destiny The books and articles referenced in the end are, as fa Other reviewers claim that this is an unbiased historical account is laughable This is yet another telling of a war written by those who won it Gwynne states that he constructed the book using a large number of firsthand accounts from the era The firsthand accounts written are naturally all of settlers and the military, and all of them appalled and offended that anyone could dare attack them and deny the greatness of Manifest Destiny The books and articles referenced in the end are, as far as I can tell, predominantly written by non Natives There isn t even a reference section for interviews, and n...A great combination of history and biography in the play of Manifest Destiny in the American conquest of the Great Plains The emotional challenge of this read for me is how to accommodate an admiration of a tribe of neverthan 10 20 thousand succeeding in halting their colonizers for two hundred years first the Spanish and later the Mexican, Texan, and American nations while not judging them over the inhumanity of their methods They were nomadic but defended their buffalo lands against A great combination of history and biography in the play of Manifest Destiny in the American conquest of the Great Plains The emotional challenge of this read for me is how to accommodate an admiration of a tribe of neverthan 10 20 thousand succeeding in halting their colonizers for two hundred years first the Spanish and later the Mexican, Texan, and American nations while not judging them over the inhumanity of their methods They were nomadic but defended their buffalo lands against all comers Every battle called for death to all warriors, torture and mutilation of all adult male captives, and dispatch of any infants with quick a death Women were raped and beaten, and their children were either adopted, enslaved, or held for ransom This all in approach to enemies was nothing personal aga...This book is not about Quanah Parker, his mother, or the Comanche It s really about How the White Man Conquered the Savage, Primitive, Warmongering Barbarians.My complaints about this book are many, but I ll try to keep it simple.Mainly, it s because a history written in 2010 contains things like this There were no witnesses to this great coming together of Stone Age hunters and horses, nothing to record what happened when they met, or what there was in the soul of the Comanche that underst This book is not about Quanah Parker, his mother, or the Comanche It s really about How the White Man Conquered the Savage, Primitive, Warmongering Barbarians.My complaints about this book are many, but I ll try to keep it simple.Mainly, it s because a history written in 2010 contains things like this There were no witnesses to this great coming together of Stone Age hunters and horses, nothing to record what happened when they met, or what there was in the soul of the Comanche that understood the horse so much better than everyone else did Whatever it was, whatever sort of accidental brilliance, whatever the particular, subliminal bond between warrior and horse, it must have thrilled these dar...

• English
• 02 September 2017
S.C. Gwynne
• Hardcover
• 384 pages
• 1416591052
• S.C. Gwynne
• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History