![]() ![]() ![]() He continues: The torture-killing of a defenseless seven-week-old infant, by committee decision no less, is an act of almost demonic immorality by any modern standard. ![]() of plates : ill., map 24 cm Place West (U.S. But Gwynne isn’t having it: It is impossible, he writes, to avoid making moral judgments about the Comanches. C (Samuel C.) 1953- Subject Parker, Quanah 1845?-1911 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 Summary Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior. Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a nine-year-old girl who was kidnapped by Comanches in 1836. This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American.
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