Gwynne’s lack of understanding of the past causes him to repeat racist tropes from the 19th century that have no place in the modern day. I have ‘sat up’ in Native American Church ceremonies with modern day Comanche, and have attended a Parker family reunion powwow in Cache, Oklahoma, near Fort Lawton where Quanah is buried. Although Comanche kidnapped many children and women, Cynthia Ann became the most famous of all the Indian captives of the era: first, because two uncles searched for her without success for a dozen years, commencing in 1841 when reports came in that she was still alive and a “captive”; and second, because when she was re-captured on December 19, 1860, by Texas Rangers and soldiers from the Second Cavalry, she tried repeatedly to escape and refused to return to her people. The books and articles referenced in the end are, as fa. Quanah was a proponent of the half-moon altar; in other words, the one not using a Bible in its teachings.
He never explains why he chose that title. I was once an editor for Ted Fehrenbach, and admire his classic on the Comanches, and found this to be an excellent, well-told companion piece. The hunters only wanted the hides, and five million hides were shipped east by train from the railhead at Dodge City during those two years: “As one scout traveling from Dodge City to the Indian territory put it: ‘In 1872 we were never out of sight of the buffalo. Glenn Schiffman is a co-founder of Roots and Wings, a non-profit organization which counsels youth and uninitiated adult men in collaboration with Native Elders and counselors at Home Boys Industries. If Clark’s account is true—if he truly did see Quanah in such regalia—it could only have been after a battle lost by the cavalry. They were also driv, So far I am extremely disappointed in this book . Pekka Hämäläinen put forth the Comanche Empire argument in his massive (and highly academic) The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008), while many biographies have dissected Quanah, including William T. Hagan’s Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief (University of Oklahoma Press, 1993), and Bill Neeley’s The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker (JohnWiley and Sons, 1995). That’s an average of five thousand a day and all from the Southern Plains herd—the lifeblood of the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Arapahoe, and Southern Cheyenne. Highly recommended! For example, books by Joseph Marshal III consider a history of Native Americans much more comprehensively than S.C. Gwynne does in Empire of the Summer Moon. Despite the savagery of Comanche assaults on settlers and soldiers alike, and Quanah’s youthful ruthlessness and hatred toward the society that killed his father and reclaimed his mother and sister against their will, Quanah was inherently good-hearted. A chapter or two in the language and stereotypes became really disturbing. If you are offended by something or disagree, that doesn’t make it racist. She had died in deep pine woods where there was no horizon, where you could see nothing at all.
S. C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History is an historical narrative of heroes and legends set against the panorama of the American West, particularly the Texas frontier between the years 1836 and 1912. I can understand why it’s a consistent top 15 history seller on Apple Books.
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The child, Prairie Flower, lived only four years after capture. The battle was over. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. Which leaves out anyone born later than 1960. Scottie Pippen, pro basketball player (Chicago Bulls), played important role in Bull's record 72-win season (1995-96). The writing is readable even compelling at times. It is late autumn, the end of warring and buffalo hunting. Hence they were often abused and lived lonely lives. People from the east or west coasts of America may think they have seen a blizzard.
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