![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I read a book by Walter Prescott Webb called The Great Plains. What led you to tackle Quanah Parker and the Comanche Nation? ‘This guy’s this brutal warrior, and he leaves it all behind and reinvents himself in this remarkable way’ He took time to talk about Quanah, the Comanches and his book (reviewed in this issue). An admitted Yankee who has spent the past 26 years out West, Gwynne worked for Time and Texas Monthly and is now a reporter for The Dallas Morning News. 6 on The New York Times best-seller list when Wild West caught up with author Gwynne before a talk and book-signing in Amarillo, Texas-near Quanah’s old stamping grounds. He appeared on the cover of the December 2007 Wild West, and his name pops up again in a feature story (“A Texas Cattleman & His Comanche Concubine,” by Richard Selcer) in this issue.Įmpire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History had reached No. ![]() Publishers released two biographies of him in the 1990s. Quanah, the half-blood last chief of the Comanche nation, has hardly been forgotten. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon and Nathaniel Philbrick’s The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Bruce Barcott wrote for The New York Times, “If Custer illustrates how the spotlight of history sometimes shines on the wrong actor, Quanah Parker exemplifies the more deserving who get left in the shadows.” That’s debatable. ![]()
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