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. This book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Started: 12/21/2019
Completed: 12/24/2019
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
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Review:
Easily half the book is about the state of the Comanches before Quanah. This is all very interesting, but kind of caught me off-guard. I think it was necessary to establish the nature of the Comanche way of life and also to provide some perspective on how his mother (a white woman) came to the tribe and her perspective on Comanches in general. The book is really interesting if you can get by how terribly bloody things were. It seems to me that Quanah could have had a book that focused more purely on him, but I have a feeling that the author wanted to have more than just that.
Easily half the book is about the state of the Comanches before Quanah. This is all very interesting, but kind of caught me off-guard. I think it was necessary to establish the nature of the Comanche way of life and also to provide some perspective on how his mother (a white woman) came to the tribe and her perspective on Comanches in general. The book is really interesting if you can get by how terribly bloody things were. It seems to me that Quanah could have had a book that focused more purely on him, but I have a feeling that the author wanted to have more than just that.
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