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Empire of the Summer Moon

by S. C. Gwynne

  • FINISHED
  • Finished May 2017
  • First published 2010

history american

Follows Quanah Parker, the last great Comanche chief, and the Comanche’s long resistance to settlers on the southern plains.   It also covers the capture of his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, and the end of the Comanche way of life.