The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains (Volume 34) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Wallace, Ernest; Hoebel, E. Adamson
Language: English
Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1988
Series: Book 18 of 38 - Civilization of the American Indians
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10th PB Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Fine and unmarked. 381pp inc. textual footnotes, Index; illustrated in photos, drawings. Cover different from stock image. 416 p.
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- Title
- The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains (Volume 34) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
- Author
- Wallace, Ernest; Hoebel, E. Adamson
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Wraps
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0806120401
- ISBN 13
- 9780806120409
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Printing
- 5th or later Printin
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 18 of 38: Civilization of the American Indians
- Seller catalogs
- History, Non-Fiction, Western Americana
For more than a century and a half, since they had first moved into the Southwest from the north, the Comanches raided and pillaged and repelled all efforts to encroach on their hunting grounds. They decimated the pueblo of Pecos, within thirty miles of Santa Fé. The Spanish frontier settlements of New Mexico were happy enough to let the raiding Comanches pass without hindrance to carry their terrorizing forays into Old Mexico, a thousand miles down to Durango. The Comanches fought the Texans, made off with their cattle, burned their homes, and effectively made their own lands unsafe for the white settlers. They fought and defeated at one time or another the Utes, Pawnees, Osages, Tonkawas, Apaches, and Navahos.
These were ""The People,"" the spartans of the prairies, the once mighty force of Comanches, a surprising number of whom survive today. More than twenty-five hundred live in the midst of an alien culture which as grown up around them. This book is the story of that tribe - the great traditions of the warfare, life, and institutions of another century that are today vivid memories among its elders.
Despite their prolonged resistance, the Comanches, too, had to ""come in."" On a sultry summer day in June 1875, a small band of starving tribesmen straggled in to Fort Sill, near the Wichita Mountains in what is now the southwestern part of the state of Oklahoma. There they surrendered to the military authorities.
So ended the reign of the Comanches on the southwestern frontier. Their horses had been captured and destroyed; the buffalo were gone; most of their tipis had been burned. They had held out to the end, but the time had now come for them to submit to the United States government demands.
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About the Author
E. Adamson Hoebel was Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the University of Minnesota. He had many opportunities to observe Indian tribes, including Cheyennes, Comanches, and Shoshones. Besides this book and others, he was coauthor of The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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