This book provides an insight into the lives of one of if not the most feared tribes ever to grace the North American continent: The Comanches. I particularly enjoyed 'The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend' written by Bob Drury, and Tom Clavin, and also Nathanial Philbrick's 'The Last Stand', and 'The Mayflower', each providing a glimpse into what Native Americans were up against, and the finality of their existence. I've read a few books that focus on the Native American culture and the impact on the American West. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Gwynne's exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads - a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and account for the advent of the new weapon specifically designed to fight them: the six-gun. 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. 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. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: 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.Īlthough listeners may be more familiar with the 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. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history.

Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories.

Empire of the summer moon by sc gwynne