Download Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History AudioBook Free
Empire of the summertime Moon spans two amazing experiences. The first traces the go up and fall season of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American background. The second entails one of the very most remarkable narratives ever before to emerge from the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer girl Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son, Quanah, who became the previous and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although listeners may be more acquainted with the labels Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the famous fighting capability of the Comanches that established just how so when the American West opened up. They were so masterful at battle and so competent with the arrows and lances that they stopped the north drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the Eastern United States were surprised to get the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion with their tribal lands. So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and take into account the advent of the new tool specifically made to battle them: the six-gun. The battle with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the introduction of the new American region. Gwynne's exhilarating bank account offers a sweeping narrative that includes Spanish colonialism, the Civil Warfare, the damage of the buffalo herds, and the introduction of the railroads - a historical feast for anybody interested in how the United States came into being.
