Full name: Comanches: The History of a People

Author: T. R. Fehrenbach Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781400030491 1400030498

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. Similar books: The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen Wagons West by Frank McLynn Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Year of Decision: 1846 by Bernard DeVoto Once They Moved Like The Wind by David Roberts The Cycles of American History by Arthur Meier Schlesinger I Wish I'd Been There by Byron Hollinshead Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Unlikely Allies by Joel Richard Paul The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner That's Not in My American History Book by Thomas Ayres Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford American Holocaust by David E. Stannard The Contested Plains by Elliott West