Product Description

Best-selling historian T.R. Fehrenbach offers thedefinitive history of an impressive tribe, fromtheir prehistoric origins to their destruction inthe mid nineteenth century. Master riders of thehigh plains, the Comanches were stunning oratorsand disciplined warriors who lived by a strictlegal code and were renowned for their arrows.They famously defeated the French and Spanishcolonialists before ultimately succumbing to theAnglo-American expansion. Thorough and unbiased,this book beautifully chronicles the tragic taleof a remarkable people.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #616822 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

Review
"For a complete history of the Comanches, this book probably has no equal." -Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
"This is a very good book. Like virtually all good books about the American Indian, it tells a tragic story, but unlike many of them, it tells it well. The author has mastered an extensive and complex subject: he is flexible, well-organized, and sensitive." -Larry McMurtry
"Fehrenbach is a highly interpretive and original writer, whose work rests on solid scholarship. His book ranges grandly across the disciplines from folklore to anthropology to history." -"Southwestern Historical Quarterly"

Herald
`A compelling account...Vivid, poignant and authoritative.'

About the Author
T. R. Fehrenbach was born in San Benito, Texas, in 1925 and graduated from Princeton University in 1947. He has been a contributor to many publications, including Esquire, The Atlantic, The Saturday Evening Post, and The New Republic. He is the author of the best-selling Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans and Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico, among other works. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Lillian.

Customer Reviews

Excellent combination of history and anthropology.
T.R. Fehrenbach's The Comanches is a wonderful, unflinching look at a powerful yet tragic tribe of Indians. The thing that separates Fehrenbach from other history writers is his use of anthropology.He explains why these and other Indians did not evolve beyond the Stone Age. For teachers like myself it helps to know why geography and culture(not race) influence different peoples' actions.

As readable as Michener
I am a Texan, so it is hard for a history of Texas to meet my expectations, without touching a tender myth. Fehrenbach has made this history a sensitive retelling of Texas history which is as readable as Michener's book, but, of course, much more factual. And he destroys the loved Texas myths with gentleness and sensitivity. A must read for any American history buff, and for many who didn't think they were. This is also an excellent book to give to someone who thinks they don't like history.

Excellent combination of history and anthropology.
T.R. Fehrenbach's The Comanches is a wonderful, unflinching look at a powerful yet tragic tribe of Indians. The thing that separates Fehrenbach from other history writers is his use of anthropology.He explains why these and other Indians did not evolve beyond the Stone Age. For teachers like myself it helps to know why geography and culture(not race) influence different peoples' actions.