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1) Come sundown
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Plenty Man novels volume 2
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English
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Torn between a nation on the rise and his own adoptive culture, Honore Greenwood is forced to lead the fight for Comanche freedom against his old friend Kit Carson. In the end, it becomes difficult to tell enemy from ally, and he knows his loyalty to the Indians may cost him everything.
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English
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Born on the very day that the first horse comes to his people, Horseback matures into a leader of unquestionable courage and vision. He assumes powerful medicine granted to him by spirits encountered on a grueling vision quest, and he takes Teal, the most beautiful young woman of his tribe, as his wife and lifelong love. Guided by forces more powerful and dangerous then even he can control or explain, Horseback will face death time and time again...
3) The Comanche
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the Comanche Indians, discussing their use of horses, work of women, housing, vision quests, and more.
4) Many a river
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English
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Relocating to western Texas with their sharecropper parents in the mid-nineteenth century, Jeffrey and Todd Barfield are separated by a Comanche attack that leaves their parents dead, and are reunited years later on opposing sides in the Civil War.
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Killstraight stories volume 4
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English
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Comanche Tribal Police Sergeant Daniel Killstraight is sent to Fort Worth, Texas, with another Indian-school educated Comanche, Charles Flint, to show off Captain Richard Pratt's Carlisle Industrial School and his theory of "Killing the Indian" to save the man -- i.e., turn the Comanches and other Indians into "white men" by assimilation. Chief Quanah Parker is in Fort Worth, too, mainly to negotiate a new lease agreement with powerful Texas ranchers...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 3
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English
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Former Comanche captive Rusty Shannon tries to resume a normal life after the end of the Civil War, but instead finds himself confronted by racial tension, murderous outlaws, brutal Comanche bands, and his nemesis--the deadly Oldham brothers.
10) The son
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
For more than 150 years, the Comanche of the Southwest were ferocious raiders who struck terror into the hearts of the plains tribes, Mexican villagers, and frontier settlers. Provided here is a revealing look at the motivation, tactics, weapons, and legend of the nomadic Native Americans known as the 'Lords of the Southern Plains.'
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Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
Description
Eleven years after Lt. John Dunbar became the Comanche warrior Dances With Wolves, he and his wife Stands With a Fist and their three children live peacefully in the village of Ten Bears, until a band of white rangers mount a violent attack on the village, and Stands With a Fist and her infant daughter are carried off.
13) Badger Boy
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 2
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In the year following the Civil War, Rusty Shannon, hoping to take up life as a farmer, is haunted by memories of being a Comanche captive as a child.
14) Dead man's walk
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
Dead Man's Walk is a powerful prequel to best-selling author Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are still teenagers when they enlist as Texas Rangers. Soon they are roaming the untamed West, coming of age while they cheat death. Under the command of a former pirate, the young men ride for Santa Fe, where the mission is to forcibly take the city out of Mexican hands.
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"In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. S.C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one...
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Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume Second Prequel
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
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Two Texas Rangers fight Indians and bandits while trying to sort affairs with their women. One is Gus McCrae, a hard-drinking womanizer jilted by his love, the other is sober Woodrow Call, father of a boy by a prostitute.
17) Bold crossings
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English
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"Malcolm Hornsby is a lanky 13-year-old who longs for more than life on a farm, who longs to read books and work with his hands at modern machines of iron and steel. Instead, he travels with his family 800 miles, from bucolic Mississippi to the middle of the most hostile territory in America and home to the Penatuka, fiercest of the Comanche bands. Wukubuu is a Penatuka of 13 full seasons who prefers the hunt and ways of healing to the tedium of working...
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