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Author: Alfred Silver Publisher: ISBN: 9780345377005 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 452
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In the Canadian mountains of 1885, Gabriel Dumont and his wife Madelaine are leaders of the metis, the halfIndian culture of the plains. The Indians are starving and the war is rising.
Author: Alfred Silver Publisher: ISBN: 9780345377005 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 452
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In the Canadian mountains of 1885, Gabriel Dumont and his wife Madelaine are leaders of the metis, the halfIndian culture of the plains. The Indians are starving and the war is rising.
Author: Max Crawford Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806129082 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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The U.S. 2nd Cavalry rolls into Texas in the 1870s with orders to keep the peace and persuade the fierce Comanches to move quietly onto the reservation.
Author: Ernest Wallace Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806120409 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 420
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Describes the way of life of the Comanches at the height of their power in the southern Plains and after their surrender to the U.S. military in 1875, up to the early twentieth century.
Author: Clark Wissler Publisher: ISBN: Category : Indians of North America Languages : en Pages : 84
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The Comanches were fierce warriors who lived on the Southern Plains. The Southern Plains extend down from the state of Nebraska into the north part of Texas. The chief object of this 1915 volume is to shed light not just on the particular garments of Plains Indians, but on their material culture as a whole.
Author: S. C. Gwynne Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416597158 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 394
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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review). 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 more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined 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. 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, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.
Author: Meredith I. Anderson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781544723600 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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Comanche: A warrior race of people with a history longer than sand has passed through the hour glass of time. The nation's economy, like that of other plains Indian tribes, was based primarily on the buffalo; they were hunters and warriors of the first degree. They warred with everyone. By the middle of the eighteenth century they had taken up horse breeding and had herds numbering in the thousands. Their name, given to them by the Ute Indians from their word komantsi which means enemy. To the Anglo-American, Mexican and Spaniards of the day, the word Comanche was enough to instill terror in the hearts of every person on the Texas frontier. They controlled a massive area of the United States known as Comancheria. As Spain, Mexico and Texas moved into their lands, they raided with a vengeance, killing men, taking women and children captive and stealing thousands of horses.
Author: Bill Neeley Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 0470254971 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 348
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Critical acclaim for The Last Comanche Chief "Truly distinguished. Neeley re-creates the character and achievements of this most significant of all Comanche leaders." -- Robert M. Utley author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull "A vivid, eyewitness account of life for settlers and Native Americans in those violent and difficult times." -- Christian Science Monitor "The special merits of Neeley's work include its reliance on primary sources and illuminating descriptions of interactions among Southern Plains people, Native and white." -- Library Journal "He has given us a fuller and clearer portrait of this extraordinary Lord of the South Plains than we've ever had before." -- The Dallas Morning News
Author: Tanith Lee Publisher: Astra Publishing House ISBN: 0698404653 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 418
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A recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won multiple awards for her craft, including the British Fantasy Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. In the land of Dorthar, the Storm Lord reigns as king. According to law, the Storm Lord’s youngest son will be the rightful heir. His queen, the cunning and ambitious Val Mara, intends her young son, Amrek, to be that heir. But fate has other ideas. When the Storm Lord abducts a Lowlander priestess, conceives a child with her, and then dies in mysterious circumstances, the unborn baby of that union suddenly becomes the heir to a vast kingdom—a situation that Val Mara is eager to rectify. When his mother also dies, the infant, Raldnor, must be taken far from the Storm Lord’s stronghold to escape the queen’s murderous wrath, forsaking all knowledge of his royal heritage. Raldnor grows up among the people of the Plains, but he is set apart from his friends and neighbors by the mystery of his past. Meanwhile, Amrek has taken the throne as his mother intended. If Raldnor is to reclaim his destiny and defeat the usurper who has taken his place, he will have to survive trials of strength, political sabotage, and threats against his life, regaining his birthright as the true Storm Lord of Dorthar.
Author: Alfred Silver
Author: Alfred Silver
Author: Max Crawford
Author: Ernest Wallace
Author: Clark Wissler
Author: S. C. Gwynne
Author: Ernest Wallace
Author: Meredith I. Anderson
Author: Bill Neeley
Author: Alfred Silver
Author: Tanith Lee