Empire of the Summer Moon (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
496
Utgivningsdatum
2011-07-07
Upplaga
Trade Paperback.
Förlag
Constable
Illustratör/Fotograf
Illustrations
Illustrationer
Illustrations
Dimensioner
197 x 131 x 32 mm
Vikt
408 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781849017039

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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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. 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 is 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 just how and 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. Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a nine-year-old girl who was kidnapped by Comanches in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend. S. C. Gwynne's account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told.
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  1. Fängslande läsning
    Peter Olof Winston Sundman, 17 januari 2024

    En av de bättre böcker jag läst på senare år.
    Mycket bra skriven och spännande händelser som jag inte kände till tidigare.

  2. Fascinerande läsning
    Apan Nilsson, 29 mars 2021

    Mycket intressant om Comanchestammen och Quanah Parker som var en av deras sista ledare. Han var son till en nybyggarekvinna som stammen rövat med sig under en raid.
    Mycket av det man trott sig veta om den nordamerikanska ursprungsbefolkningen är fel på gott och på ont.

  3. Mycket välskriven bok med många intressanta sidospår....
    claes bergqvist, 1 oktober 2013

    Mycket välskriven bok med många intressanta sidospår. Om Chomanche-indianernas inte alltför belysta historia och indianhövdingen Quannah Parker, vars mamma var en vit tillfångatagen kvinna.
    Jag kan bara säga grattis när du just omfattat denna bok....."what a gem"

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Nothing short of a revelation. Gwynne doesn't merely retell the story of Parker's life. he pulls his readers through an American frontier roiling with extreme violence, political intrigue, bravery, anguish, coruption, love, knives, rifles and arrows. Lots and lots of arrow. This book will leave dust on your jeans. * New York Times * Cuts through all the BS - from the left and right - about how the West was won from the Indians and how America began to lose its soul. * James Patterson * A rivetting book. * Economist * Sam Gwynne is a master story-teller and a dogged reporter, and in this book he makes history come to life in a way that everyone will find irresistible. I couldn't put it down. * The Texas Tribune. * S.C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon is many things-a thrilling account of the Texas frontier in the nineteenth century, a vivid description of the Comanche nation, a fascinating portrait of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son, the mysterious, magnificent Quanah-but most of all it is a ripping good read. Gwynne writes history with a pounding pulse and a beating heart....I couldn't put it down. * Jake Silverstein, Editor, Texas Monthly. * In this sweeping work, S.C. Gwynne recreates the Comanche's lost world with gusto and style-and without sentimentality. * Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder. * Excellent. * Sunday Times * Gwynne has set out to write a western epic, and his narrative is enormously entertaining, but it is hard to discern a coherent historical thesis. * London Review of Books * ... an unashamedly exciting narrative of the American West. * Sunday Times *

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S.C. Gwynne is an award-winning journalist who worked for Time from 1988 to 2000. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, and Harper's Magazine. He lives in Austin, Texas.