Comanches : the history of a people / T.R. Fehrenbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fehrenbach, T. R.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comanche Indians--History.

Comanche Indians.

History.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 557, xiv pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Anchor Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Anchor Books, 2003.

Summary:

"Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches? rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion. Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of arrows. They lived by a strict legal code and worshipped within a cosmology of magic. As he portrays the Comanche lifestyle, Fehrenbach re-creates their doomed battle against European encroachment. While they destroyed the Spanish dream of colonizing North America and blocked the French advance into the Southwest, the Comanches ultimately fell before the Texas Rangers and the U.S. Army in the great raids and battles of the mid-nineteenth century. This is a classic American story, vividly and poignantly told."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Death in the high country:The people and the American Indians

Failed empires: The people and the French and Spaniards

Smoke and Tears:The people and the Mexicans

Blood on the moon: The people and the Texans

The graveyard plains: The people and the Americans.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1974.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-557) and index.

ISBN:

1400030498

9781400030491

OCLC:

52056761

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