Synopses & Reviews
In this classic account, bestselling historian T. R. Fehrenbach offers the definitive history of a tribe whose rise to prominence early in the nineteenth century was as swift and stunning as its demise only fifty years later.
The Comanches were the prototypical horse Indians -- master riders of the high plains who lived in teepees and hunted bison. They were stunning orators and disciplined warriors who lived by a strict legal code and had a reputation for making the best arrows. They were also the tribe who defeated the French and Spanish colonialists before they succumbed to Anglo-American expansion. Thorough and unbiased, this fascinating book chronicles a remarkable people from their prehistoric origins to their destruction.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 555-557) and index.
About the Author
T.R. Fehrenbach was born in San Benito, Texas in 1925 and graduated from Princeton University in 1947. He has been a contributor to many publications, including Esquire, The Atlantic, The Saturday Evening Post, and The New Republic. He is the author of the best-selling Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans and Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico, among other works. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Lillian.