Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (78 page)
Authors: S. C. Gwynne
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ABOUT THE AUTHORYellow Horse, Chief,
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S. C. Gwynne is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared extensively in
Time
, for which he worked as bureau chief, national correspondent, and senior editor from 1988 to 2000, and in
Texas Monthly
, where he was an executive editor. His work has also appeared in
The
New York Times, Harper’s
, the
Los Angeles Times
, the
Boston Globe
, the
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, and
California
magazine
.
He attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins and lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Katie, and daughter, Maisie. This is his third book.
Parker’s Fort
: The site of the famous 1836 Indian massacre that resulted in the kidnapping of Cynthia Ann Parker and other family members. This fort was a replica of the original, built in the 1930s. It was rebuilt again and exists today in the town of Grosbeck, Texas.
Jack Hays
: He was the greatest Texas Ranger, the one the Comanches and Mexicans feared most, the source of countless legends of the Old West. It was said that before Hays, Americans came into the West on foot carrying long rifles, and that after Hays, everybody was mounted and carrying a six-shooter.
Cynthia Ann Parker and her daughter, Prairie Flower
: Taken at A. F. Corning’s studio in Fort Worth, probably in 1862, the photo became famous on the frontier and beyond. Note her large, muscular hands and wrists.
Comanche warriors
: Famed photographer William Soule took this photograph in the early 1870s at Fort Sill in southwestern Oklahoma, where the Comanches were brought after their surrender.
