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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 / S.C. Gwynne.

Author: Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.), 1953-

Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.

Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2010.

ISBN: 9781416591054 (hardcover)
1416591052 (hardcover)
9781416591061 (pbk.)
1416591060 (pbk.)

Description: viii, 371 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject: Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911.
Comanche Indians Kings and rulers Biography.
Comanche Indians Wars.
Comanche Indians History.
Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.).
West (U.S.) History 1848-1860.
West (U.S.) History 1860-1890.
West (U.S.) History 1890-1945.
West (U.S.) Race relations.

Contents: 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 -- Peace, 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.

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