The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains (Civilization of American Indian S.) - Hardcover

Wallace, Ernest; Hoebel, E. Adamson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806102497 ISBN 13: 9780806102498

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987

Synopsis

Describes in detail the history, culture and people of the proud Indian tribe which ruled the Southern Plains of the American West until the turn of the twentieth century

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Review

Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, historian and anthropologist, . . . have re-created the life of the bold, confident people who . . . dominated the prairies of the Southwest. All of it is here: the toil and stress and joyous ingathering of the buffalo harvest, the exultant feats of horsemanship, the happy sociability of the tepee village, the excitement of war and raiding. Then military defeat and the loss of the buffalo, the frustrations of the reservation experience with the failure to bring back the old order by dancing and medicine, and finally the mystical escape through Father Peyote. . . . In its interpretation of the Comanches way of life, the book achieves its aim of satisfying both the general reader and the anthropologist. It is a good story well told, without romanticizing, but with understanding and detachment. Here [is] a people perfectly adapted to their environment, loving their life and their wild land and sky. Angie Debo, in the New York Times Book Review"

-Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, historian and anthropologist, . . . have re-created the life of the bold, confident people who . . . dominated the prairies of the Southwest. All of it is here: the toil and stress and joyous ingathering of the buffalo harvest, the exultant feats of horsemanship, the happy sociability of the tepee village, the excitement of war and raiding. Then military defeat and the loss of the buffalo, the frustrations of the reservation experience with the failure to bring back the old order by dancing and 'medicine, ' and finally the mystical escape through Father Peyote. . . . In its interpretation of the Comanches' way of life, the book achieves its aim of satisfying both the general reader and the anthropologist. It is a good story well told, without romanticizing, but with understanding and detachment. Here [is] a people perfectly adapted to their environment, loving their life and their wild land and sky.---Angie Debo, in the New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Erneast Wallace was Professor of History in Texas Tech University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806102497
• ISBN 13: 9780806102498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 396