Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History Read Online Free PDF Page B

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Parker, Chief Baldwin.
The Life of Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief,
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Quanah Parker, Last Chief of the Kwahadi Obeys the Great Spirit.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 
     
S. C. Gwynne is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared extensively in
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He attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins and lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Katie, and daughter, Maisie. This is his third book.

Parker’s Fort : The site of the famous 1836 Indian massacre that resulted in the kidnapping of Cynthia Ann Parker and other family members. This fort was a replica of the original, built in the 1930s. It was rebuilt again and exists today in the town of Grosbeck, Texas.
     

    Jack Hays : He was the greatest Texas Ranger, the one the Comanches and Mexicans feared most, the source of countless legends of the Old West. It was said that before Hays, Americans came into the West on foot carrying long rifles, and that after Hays, everybody was mounted and carrying a six-shooter.
     

    Cynthia Ann Parker and her daughter, Prairie Flower : Taken at A. F. Corning’s studio in Fort Worth, probably in 1862, the photo became famous on the frontier and beyond. Note her large, muscular hands and wrists.
     

    Comanche warriors : Famed photographer William Soule took this photograph in the early 1870s at Fort Sill in southwestern Oklahoma, where the Comanches were brought after their surrender.
     

    The young Sul Ross : This is the way he looked when he killed Comanche war chief Peta Nocona at the Battle of Pease River and recaptured Nocona’s wife, who turned out to be Cynthia Ann Parker. Ross later became governor of Texas.
     

    Ranald S. Mackenzie during the Civil War, 1863 or 1864 : The man who would destroy the Comanches and become America’s greatest Indian fighter graduated first in his class at West Point in 1862 at the age of twenty-one and by August he was serving in the army in the Second Battle of Manassas. By the end of the war—at the advanced age of twenty-four—he had been promoted to brevet brigadier general.
     

    Quanah in 1877 : The earliest known photo of him, two years after his surrender. Though he is fully