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Empire of the summer moon [sound recording] / S.C. Gwynne.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublication details: [Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Audio, p2010.Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 12 sound discs (15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1400116554 (retail unikeep)
  • 1400146550 (library binder)
  • 9781400116553 (retail unikeep)
  • 9781400146550 (library binder)
Other title:
  • Container title: 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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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.
Read by David Drummond.Summary: A history of the 40-year battle between the Comanche Indians and white settlers, centering on the Comanche chief Quanah.
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Adult Audiobook Adult Audiobook Main Library Audiobook 978.0049 G995 Available 33111006606608
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Few people realize that the Comanche Indians were the greatest warring tribe in American history. Their forty-year battle with settlers held up the development of the new nation. Empire of the Summer Moon tells of the rise and fall of this fierce, powerful, and proud tribe, and begins in 1836 with the kidnapping of a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower blue eyes named Cynthia Ann Parker. She grew to love her captors and eventually became famous as the "White Squaw." She married a powerful Comanche chief, and their son, Quanah, became a warrior who was never defeated and whose bravery and military brilliance in the Texas panhandle made him a legend as one of the greatest of the Plains Indian chiefs.

In this vivid piece of writing, S. C. Gwynne describes in sometimes brutal detail the savagery of both whites and Comanches and, despite the distance of time, demonstrates how truly shocking these events were, juxtaposed against the haunting story of an unforgettable figure of a woman caught between two worlds.

Compact discs.

Duration: 15:00:00.

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.

Read by David Drummond.

A history of the 40-year battle between the Comanche Indians and white settlers, centering on the Comanche chief Quanah.

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