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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

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EMPIRE

 
SUMMER MOON
 

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

 

S. C. Gwynne

 

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Insert photograph credits: 1, 4, 12 courtesy of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas, Joseph E. Taulman Collection; 3, 6–8, 10 courtesy of the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum; 9, 13, 15, 17 courtesy of the Fort Sill Museum; 14, 16, 18 courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society; 2 courtesy of the Library of Congress; 5 courtesy of the Baylor University Library, Waco Texas

 

 

To Katie and Maisie

 

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

CONTENTS
 

        One
    
NEW KIND OF WAR

 

       Two
      
A LETHAL PARADISE

 

     Three
      
WORLDS IN COLLISION

 

       Four
      
HIGH LONESOME

 

       Five
      
THE WOLF’S HOWL

 

          Six
      
BLOOD AND SMOKE

 

    Seven
      
DREAM VISIONS AND APOCALYPSE

 

       Eight
      
WHITE SQUAW

 

        Nine
      
CHASING THE WIND

 

         Ten
      
DEATH’S INNOCENT FACE

 

    Eleven
      
WAR TO THE KNIFE

 

    Twelve
      
WHITE QUEEN OF THE COMANCHES

 

  Thirteen
      
THE RISE OF QUANAH

 

 Fourteen
      
UNCIVIL WARS

 

     Fifteen
      
PEACE, AND OTHER HORRORS

 

    Sixteen
      
THE ANTI-CUSTER

 

Seventeen
    
MACKENZIE UNBOUND

 

  Eighteen
      
THE HIDE MEN AND THE MESSIAH

 

  Nineteen
      
THE RED RIVER WAR

 

      Twenty
      
FORWARD, IN DEFEAT

 

Twenty-one
    
THIS WAS A MAN

 

Twenty-two
    
RESTING HERE UNTIL DAY BREAKS

 

NOTES

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

INDEX

 

 

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON

 

 

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