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Comanches: The Destruction of a People [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

T. R. Fehrenbach
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  • Taschenbuch: 557 Seiten
  • Verlag: Da Capo Press Inc; Auflage: Reprint (September 1994)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0306805863
  • ISBN-13: 978-0306805868
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,7 x 15 x 3,1 cm
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  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.150.971 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Absolutely authoritative and immediate, this is 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 they encountered and mastered the horse (first introduced by Spanish settlers). This is how, on horseback, the Comanches conquered and controlled the plains for more than a hundred years: destroying the ancient dreams of Spanish empire in North America, blocking the French advance into the Southwest, and becoming for more than sixty years the single greatest obstacle to Anglo-American expansion. Fehrenbachs history also tells how, at last, the Comanches themselves were conquered, falling before the Texas Rangers and the U. S. Army in the great raids and battles of the mid-nineteenth centuryuntil, after the Civil War, only random clumps of tipis stood where once encampments had stretched for miles.

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Absolutely authoritative and immediate, this is 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 they encountered and mastered the horse (first introduced by Spanish settlers). This is how, on horseback, the Comanches conquered and controlled the plains for more than a hundred years: destroying the ancient dreams of Spanish empire in North America, blocking the French advance into the Southwest, and becoming for more than sixty years the single greatest obstacle to Anglo-American expansion. Fehrenbachs history also tells how, at last, the Comanches themselves were conquered, falling before the Texas Rangers and the U. S. Army in the great raids and battles of the mid-nineteenth centuryuntil, after the Civil War, only random clumps of tipis stood where once encampments had stretched for miles.

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Well researched, interestingly written. I could not put this book down. Mr. Fehrenbach provides a balanced perspective many books do not.
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An excellent book!

In this book, Mr. Fehrenbach provides a valuable service in this day and age when he describes, unflinchingly, the utter savagery employed by Indian tribes' particular brand of "warfare" - not warfare at all really but more of a rite of passage for males in the band. A rite in which the systematic rape, mutilation and gruesome torture of one's helpless captives was considered perfectly acceptable - and not limited to only white men, women and children either - other enemy Indian tribes were just as imperiled. He also pulls no punches with regard to the reciprocating treachery, hatred and savagery employed Europeans settlers. But, more important than anything that could be construed as fault-finding, he highlights the underlying cultural ethos that were at work when describing the clash of cultures that occurred between red men and white and brings home the inevitableness of this clash and the hopelessness of accommodating the Indian's way of life amid the title wave of immigration and settlement that occurred throughout the 19th century.

This book should be required reading in all our Colleges and Universities.

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This book describes the history and destruction of the Commanche people in a manner that makes the book hard to put down. More importantly the story of the interactions of the Commanche people, the Spaniards, Mexicans, Texans, and Americans are portrayed in the fairest manner possible. There are no good guys, no bad guys, just people doing what they had to do to survive. Fehrenbach's insight into the Commanche ethos allows one to understand why European based cultures had to fear them, hate them, and at the same time respect them and actually feel proud that such a people existed. At the same time I have become more proud of my Texan ancestors whether they be White, Indian, or Mexican. I now understand why the Commanche people and the American or Texan peoples could not have coexisted. Tragically, one had to be exterminated.
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