Pacaritambo

BEING COMANCHE: A Social History of an American Indian Community
by Morris W. Foster. Condition: NEW 1996 University of Arizona Press Trade Paperback, 3rd printing. Content: Winner of the American Society for Ethnohistory's Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize. This fine study revels in detailed fashion that the modern Comanche are more than simply theh sum of their relations with Euroamericans. At each turn in the historical process, the Comanches have found ways to go on being Comanche, making new economic arrangements, and innovating means for publicly expressing that unique identity. [A short time ago the Comanche Nation had more college grads per capita than any other U.S. tribe. In 2007 I don't know if that is still true.] Questions welcome [2 copies available]
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COMANCHE MOON: The True Story of Cynthia Ann Parker, Her Son Quanah, and the Wild Comanches of Texas!
written & illustrated by Jack Jackson. B&W "comic book" style illusrrations. B&W era photos of the Parker "clans." Intro by Texas historian T. R. Fehrenbach. Condition: UNREAD 1970 Rip Off Press/Last Gap large soft cover, no priting given. Light edge wear. Content: Exactly as the title states - the story of Cynthia Ann Parker's capture, life as a Comanche wife named Naduah, her "recapture" or kidnapping back to the Anglo society, and the life and accomplishments of her son Quanah - last great Chief of the Comanche Tribe. Intro by Texas historian T R Fehrenbach. This is the original cover, BTW. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE COMANCHES: A History 1706 - 1875
by Thomas W. Kavanagh. B&W maps and charts illustrate. Condition: NEW 1999 Bison Books Trade Paperback, first printing. 586 pages. Content: This is the first in-depth historical study, Comanche social and political groups. Using the ethnohistorical method, Thomas W. Kavanagh traces the changes and continuities in Comanche politics from their earliest interactions with Europeans to their settlement in present-day Oklahoma. Focus on the various Comanche tribes and their own traditions - Yamparikas, Jupes, Korsotekas. Quahadas, Penatekas, Tenewas, and Nokonis. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE COMANCHES: A History 1706 - 1875
by Thomas W. Kavanagh. B&W maps and charts illustrate. Condition: NEW 1999 Bison Books Trade Paperback, first printing. 586 pages. Content: This is the first in-depth historical study, Comanche social and political groups. Using the ethnohistorical method, Thomas W. Kavanagh traces the changes and continuities in Comanche politics from their earliest interactions with Europeans to their settlement in present-day Oklahoma. Focus on the various Comanche tribes and their own traditions - Yamparikas, Jupes, Korsotekas. Quahadas, Penatekas, Tenewas, and Nokonis. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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COMANCHES IN THE NEW WEST 1895 - 1908 (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
by Stanley Noyes with Daniel J. Gelo. Foreword by Larry McMurtry. B&W era photos by Alice Snearly and Lon Kelley. Condition: NEW 1999 UT Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition. CONTENT: Novelist Larry McMurtry once received a photograph showing a demonstration of the then-new kerosene lamp to a mixed crowd of cowboys, soldiers, and Indians. To him, this image captured the transition from the Old West to the New West and led him to purchase the collection of glass plate negatives from which this print came. Sensing that the collection contained a fascinating record of cultural change and survival, McMurtry loaned it to the University of Texas Press for investigation. With the assistance of Comanche expert Daniel J. Gelo and others, Stanley Noyes has identified the photographers, subjects, and settings of these thirty-two photographs. Most appear to be the work of pioneer woman photographer Alice Snearly and her brother-in-law Lon Kelley, who worked in the heart of Comanche territory on the Texas-Oklahoma border. These images preserve the "interim" generation of Comanches, including Quanah Parker and two of his wives, who endured reservation life and forced moves to individual allotments of farm and ranch land. Yet the photos show not a defeated but a resilient people who have held on to many of the old ways while adopting enough of Anglo culture to survive. Noyes's historical introduction provides context for the photos, which he also describes in detailed captions. A few images of Anglo settlers and towns complete the picture of life in Indian Territory at this moment of change. [2 copies available]
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THE LEGEND OF THE BLUEBONNET:
An Old Tale of Texas Retold and Illustrated by Tomie De Paola
text & color art by Tomie de Paola. Condition: NEW 1983 edition G. P. Putnam's Sons softcover, 5th impression. Tiny edgewear. Content: A retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas. Ages 4+. [1 copy available]
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THE LEGEND OF THE INDIAN PAINTBRUSH
Retold and illustrated by Tomie dePaola. Condition: NEW 1988 Paperstar softcover (10.0 x 8.0 x 0.2, apx 30 pages), 12th printing. As always, de Paola's illustrations are a delight. Content: Little Gopher was smaller than the other young Indian boys of his Plains tribe, and although he tried hard, he could not do what the others did. The tribe's wise shaman assures him, however, that he has a different gift. As he grows up it is revealed to him in a vision that he will paint pictures of the glories of his tribe, that his own greatest work will someday be ``a picture that is as pure as the colors in the evening sky.'' As he grows older he does indeed paint the great deeds, the hunts, the visions of his tribe. But making paints to match the colors of the evening sky eludes him. One night, a voice directs him to a special vantage point where he finds brushes filled with wonderful colors. He creates at last his masterwork, and the next day the brushes have rooted and become the brilliant flowers we now call Indian Paintbrush. Wonderful old Texas Native American legend. [1 copy available]
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NEW MEDICINE (Signed Copy)
by Jeanne Williams. SIGNED by author. Condition: NEW 1993 Hendrick-Long (Dallas) Trade PB first printing. pale near-crease bottom front cover & tiny edgewear. Interior perfect. Great cover. Content: When his tribe is forced to go to Fort Sill Reservation after the defeat at Adobe Walls, the son of a Comanche chief debates whether to continue his resistance or to adapt to the white man's ways. Through his friendship with a Fort Sill doctor he learns to combine Comanche and white "medicine" to help his people. Historical Fiction. Young Adults. [1 copy available]
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OUR RED BROTHERS AND THE PEACE POLICY OF PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT
by Lawrie Tatum. Foreword by Richard Ellis. B&W maps & era photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1970 University of Nebraska Trade Paperback, no edition given. Problems: rubbings around front cover panel, hinges and the back cover. Interior clean & tight. NO tanning. Something has been blacked out on the title page but I don't know what. Content: A classic in the literature on the Southern Plains, this book is an invaluable source for the history of the Kiowas, the Comanches, and other tribes, as well as of an important period in the development of federal Indian policy. Tatum was appointed Kiowa-Comanche agent in 1969 and served until 1973. A Quaker possessed of a strong sense of justice and a remarkable degree of patience, he tried to apply the principles of honesty, kindness, and generosity in dealing with his charges - "the worst red men east of the Rocky Mountains." [I love that!] His book was written both to record the work of the Quakers with the Indians and as a defense of their methods and the reforms instituted by the Grant administration. Foreword by Richard Ellis. BTW, a new Comanche museum will be opening soon in Oklahoma - if you are out that way, be sure to stop in. [1 copy available]
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QUANAH PARKER [Revised] (War Chiefs Series)
by Bill Dugan. Jim Carson cover art. Condition: NEW 2000 HarperPaperbacks MMPB, revised edition, third printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: After winning the Mexican War, white Texans turned their attention to expanding control over the vast lands of west Texas. To dominate this huge and forbidding land, they had to subdue everything, man and beast, that called it home--most notably the Comanche people. With their independence threatended, the Comanche saw their way of life vanishing. But they would claim many lives. Only one chief had both the courage and the wisodm to know that war, no matter how valiantly fought, would end in defeat and humiliation. Quanah Parker, the son of a Comanche chief and a white female captive [Cynthia Ann Parker], rose to lead his people--not into abject slavery, but into proud coexistence with an unfolding history that was unstoppable. Impeccably researched, rich with real-life characters and period detail, this powerful historical novel vividly recounts the decline and fall of the Comanche people and their extraordinary leader, Quanah Parker, from the battlefield to the reservation. [1 copy available]
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QUANAH PARKER: Warrior for Freedom, Ambassador for Peace (A Great Episodes Book) [Biographical Novel]
by Len Hilts. Wendell Minor cover illustration. Condition: UNREAD 1988 Odyssey Trade Paperback, first printing. Light edgewear-shelfwear. Interior clean and tight. Content: Quanah Parker, the son of a Comanche chief and a white woman (Cynthia Ann Parker), became a great chief who valiantly led his people in an attempt to save their homeland. He was the symbol of the Comanches, a man first feared then respected by the people he fought. Reviewer: "Hilts gives us a story-form report of the key events in the life of Quanah Parker. Parker led his people from war to peace in a settlement of ongoing disputes with Texas and the United States, successfully transitioning from the traditonal plains migratory living to settled farming and business, becoming an able advocate for his people against the further cultural and geographic hegemony of the US in. Parker became the first Native American to invest in a railroad, being one of the founder owners of the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway." Young Adults. [1 copy available]
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QUANAH PARKER: Warrior for Freedom, Ambassador for Peace (A Great Episodes Book) [Biographical Novel]
by Len Hilts. Condition: UNREAD 1997 Gulliver Books hardcover (pictorial boards - no DJ issued), assumed first printing. Content: Quanah Parker, the son of a Comanche chief and a white woman (Cynthia Ann Parker), became a great chief who valiantly led his people in an attempt to save their homeland. He was the symbol of the Comanches, a man first feared then respected by the people he fought. Reviewer: "Hilts gives us a story-form report of the key events in the life of Quanah Parker. Parker led his people from war to peace in a settlement of ongoing disputes with Texas and the United States, successfully transitioning from the traditonal plains migratory living to settled farming and business, becoming an able advocate for his people against the further cultural and geographic hegemony of the US in. Parker became the first Native American to invest in a railroad, being one of the founder owners of the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway." Young Adults. [1 copy available]
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RIDE THE WIND (Historical Fiction - NOT Romance)
by Lucia St. Clair Robson. Tom Hall cover painting. Condition: NEW 1993 Ballantine paperback, first printing. Small bookstore stamp bottom edges. Content: In 1836, when she was 9 years old, Cynthia Ann parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians from her family's settlement in central Texas. She grew up with them, mastered their ways, and married one of their leaders. Except for her brilliant blue eyes and golden mane, Cynthia Ann was in every way a Comanche woman. They called her Naduah - Keeps Warm With Us. She rode a horse named Wind. This is her story, the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever. [Well researched historical fiction.] [1 copy available]
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RIDE THE WIND (Historical Fiction - NOT Romance)
by Lucia St. Clair Robson. Tom Hall cover painting. Frontispiece - one of the best B&W photos of Quanah Parker I've seen. B&W map of Comancheria. Condition: NEW 1993 Ballantine paperback, 22nd printing. Tiny, tiny edgewear. Content: In 1836, when she was 9 years old, Cynthia Ann parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians from her family's settlement in central Texas. She grew up with them, mastered their ways, and married one of their leaders. Except for her brilliant blue eyes and golden mane, Cynthia Ann was in every way a Comanche woman. They called her Naduah - Keeps Warm With Us. She rode a horse named Wind. This is her story, the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever. [Well researched historical fiction.] [1 copy available]
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THREE YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS AND MEXICANS
by Gen. Thomas James. Edited, With an Introduction, by Milo Milton Quaife. Condition: Good+ 1966 Citadel Press hardcover & DJ (in NEW mylar jacket), no printing given. EX-library book with all markings, but the interior is very clean & tight. Loss of color spots top front board. Content: Reviewer: "A lively, descriptive and exciting narrative of Thomas James' adventures up the Missouri River in 1809-1810 and to Sante Fe in the years 1821-1823. His writing abilities are brilliant and the reader will find themself anxiously flipping through the pages to see what happens next. In 1809 James joined the St.Louis Missouri Fur Company and relates the experiences of his crew being mistreated by Manuel Lisa, then joining up with John Colter, along with several other personal accounts of the day to day activities and survival strategies they encountered. He was one of the first to describe and take part in the trade business from St. Louis to Sante Fe and it is absorbing to read of his confrontations with the Comanches and the Spanish during these years. This is a must read for early American West enthusiasts.The book itself may be difficult to find, but it is certainly well worth the effort." [1 copy available]
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