Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History » (Unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hrs)

Sam Gwynne is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared extensively in Time, for which he worked as bureau chief, national correspondent and senior editor from 1988 to 2000, and in Texas Monthly, where he was executive editor. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, and California Magazine. His previous book Outlaw Bank (co-authored with Jonathan Beaty) detailed the rise and fall of the corrupt global bank BCCI. He attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins and lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Katie and daughter Maisie.

A stunning historical account of the battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West—-in the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

The New York Times - Bruce Barcott

…Parker grew up to become the last and greatest chief of the Comanche, the tribe that ruled the Great Plains for most of the 19th century. That's his one-sentence biography. The deeper, richer story that unfolds in Empire of the Summer Moon is nothing short of a revelation. Gwynne…doesn't merely retell the story of Parker's life. He pulls his readers through an American frontier roiling with extreme violence, political intrigue, bravery, anguish, corruption, love, knives, rifles and arrows. Lots and lots of arrows. This book will leave dust and blood on your jeans.

One A NEW KIND OF WAR 1

Two A LETHAL PARADISE 12

Three WORLDS IN COLLISION 23

Four HIGH LONESOME 36

Five THE WOLF'S HOWL 53

Six BLOOD AND SMOKE 73

Seven DREAM VISIONS AND APOCALYPSE 89

Eight WHITE SQUAW 102

Nine CHASING THE WIND 119

Ten DEATH'S INNOCENT FACE 128

Eleven WAR TO THE KNIFE 151

Twelve WHITE QUEEN OF THE COMANCHES 173

Thirteen THE RISE OF QUANAH 194

Fourteen UNCIVIL WARS 207

Fifteen PEACE, AND OTHER HORRORS 222

Sixteen THE ANTI-CUSTER 235

Seventeen MACKENZIE UNBOUND 250

Eighteen THE HIDE MEN AND THE MESSIAH 258

Nineteen THE RED RIVER WAR 274

Twenty FORWARD, IN DEFEAT 288

Twenty-one THIS WAS A MAN 308

Twenty-two RESTING HERE UNTIL DAY BREAKS 316

NOTES 321

BIBLIOGRAPHY 343

INDEX 356