Comanches: The Destruction of a People

Fehrenbach, T.R.

ISBN 10: 0394488563 / ISBN 13: 9780394488561

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1969

About this Item

Slight shelf wear and a previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown. Mild wear to jacket at the top-edge of the rear panel, protected in a Mylar archival sleeve. xvi, 557 pages with Selected Bibliography followed by the Index (xiv). Illustrated: Color plates, black and white photographs, art reproductions, maps. Signed by the author (name only) on the front free endpaper. Seller Inventory # 012019

Bibliographic Details

Title: Comanches: The Destruction of a People

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

First edition. 1974

From the Inside Flap:

Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.
Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of arrows. They lived by a strict legal code and worshipped within a cosmology of magic. As he portrays the Comanche lifestyle, Fehrenbach re-creates their doomed battle against European encroachment. While they destroyed the Spanish dream of colonizing North America and blocked the French advance into the Southwest, the Comanches ultimately fell before the Texas Rangers and the U.S. Army in the great raids and battles of the mid-nineteenth century. This is a classic American story, vividly and poignantly told.