Book Overview
After winning the Mexican War, white Texans turned their attention to expanding control over the vast lands of west Texas. To dominate this huge and forbidding land, they had to subdue everything, man and beast, that called it home--most notably the Comanche people.With their independence threatended, the Comanche saw their way of life vanishing. But they would claim many lives. Only one chief had both the courage and the wisodm to know that war, no matter how valiantly fought, would end in defeat and humiliation. Quanah Parker, the son of a Comanche chief and a white female captive, rose to lead his people--not into abject slavery, but into proud coexistence with an unfolding history that was unstoppable.Impeccably researched, rich with real-life characters and period detail, this powerful historical novel vividly recounts the decline and fall of the Comanche people and their extraordinary leader, Quanah Parker, from the battlefield to the reservation.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0061004499
ISBN13:9780061004490
Release Date:March 1993
Publisher:HarperTorch
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.36 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
good book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This was a pretty good book, I thought it would read more about him but it read like a story. It started with this father Peta Nocona and was a little slow in the begenning but got better.
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