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Loading... The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parkerby Bill Neeley
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Biography of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, born in 1850, who led his warriors in battle against the encroaching white settlers and hunters until there was no longer any hope of winning, and then turned his attention to the bargaining table where he continued to fight on behalf of his people. No library descriptions found. |
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The scope of The Last Comanche Chief is necessarily limited, though there are many good stories here, and Neeley writes well enough, but he falls back on simplistic journalistic summarization when he says that Quanah “passed within a single lifetime from a Stone Age warrior to a statesman in the age of Industrial Revolution.” A 19th c. Stone Age? It’s much more complex and interesting than that. ( )