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Comanches: The Destruction of a Peopleby T.R Fehrenbach
Hardcover Cloth 553 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Stated first edition 1974. Handsome brown boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Faded topstain. Previous owner's gift inscription on front endsheet. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Some spotting to edges. An unclipped dust jacket is discolored with age showing considerable shelf wear - tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
The story of the most powerful of American Indian tribes, the Comanches (they called themselves the "true human beings"), who rode into modern history in a headlong collision with western civilization. T. R. Fehrenbach here recreates their rise to power, from their first harsh struggles for survival in the Eastern Rockies through uncounted generations who desperately resisted privation and suffering until… Read More