Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History By S. C. Gwynne

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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* 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 West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review).Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. 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. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. 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. 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. The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. 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, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.

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"Someone in a thread mentioned the book "Empire of the Summer Moon," which was a big bestseller published in 2010. Unfortunately, a lot of well-meaning people have read this book without realizing this is little more than racist drivel under the facade of scholarship. The quality of the scholarship, however, is just terrible. Here are some examples (for those of you who have read the book or may be interested):The author makes sweeping generalizations and straight up lies without bothering to fact check anything. here are just a few examples...# 1 "No tribe other than the Comanches ever learned to breed horses--an intensely demanding, knowledge-based skill that helped create enormous wealth for the tribe." The Nez Perce' were some of the most successful horse breeders in North America. Anyone claiming to be a historian who can't be bothered checking something like that is not a historian.# 2 The San Saba massacre was the greatest military setback the Spaniards suffered in the New World: with less than 2 dozens casualties, this one is barely a blip on the radar and doesn't even come close to the Pueblo Revolt and the Noche Triste.# 3 "Torture of survivors was the norm, as it was all across the plains." No, it wasn't. it was practiced by some tribes, and not by others.# 4: he describes the trip from Independence to Houston as "yet another thousand miles." it's not even close to 1,000 miles. Anyone exaggerating such easily provable facts is not a researcher.# 5: "...the highest civilian wartime toll in U.S. history prior to 9/11" - referred to the Minnesota Uprising of 1862. The Minnesota Uprising was not a one time event like 9/11, so if we include more prolonged conflicts, then obviously more civilians died during the Civil War than in the Minnesota Uprising.# 6: "it was in Texas where human settlement first arrived at the edges of the Great Plains" He writes this in reference to the first white people showing up, because you know... Natives who set up sedentary villages there were not 'human.'# 7: more importantly, the author uses sources long since discredited by historians, and doesn't use much better sources already used in works of actual scholarship such as Pekka Hämäläinen's "The Comanche Empire".#8 I won't even get into details regarding how the author keeps interjecting his straight up racism throughout the work (using a framework of ranking societies from savagery to civilization that has been rejected since the second half of the 20th century.) I could go on, but you get the idea.Unfortunately, Empire of the Summer Moon is not the only popular history book about Native history that promotes exaggerations, not so subtle racism, and straight up lies. The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud is another one that is equally characterized by the same ridiculously bad standards of scholarship. Ok, my rant is over. Have a good day!"

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