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Empire of the Summer Moon, anyone read it?
Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:33 pm
Just ordered this book, it covers the Comanche tribe. They are, by all accounts, the ultimate badass plains warriors who delayed western expansion by years, if not decades. Ruthless, and absolutely lethal on horseback.
As a side note, Taylor Sheridan has the rights to the book, and will eventually develop it into a series or a movie. If it's written and directed in the manner he did Wind River, it will be fantastic. If Yellowstone, I doubt it.
As a side note, Taylor Sheridan has the rights to the book, and will eventually develop it into a series or a movie. If it's written and directed in the manner he did Wind River, it will be fantastic. If Yellowstone, I doubt it.
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Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:39 pm to BluegrassCardinal
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anyone read it?
Yes, I’m sure someone has.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:41 pm to BluegrassCardinal
If only there were a place to discuss books.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:45 pm to Philzilla
Yep, just scrolled down and saw the book forum.
Just thought it would be a break from the endless Pride threads, and Catholic v Protestant war.
Just thought it would be a break from the endless Pride threads, and Catholic v Protestant war.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:46 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Yes, it's a good book and required reading as far as Texas history goes.
Comanches were not noble savages. I'm not getting into the treatment of Native Americans as a whole in US history, but whether white, black, brown or red, all the rest of Mankind hated the Comanche.
Comanches were not noble savages. I'm not getting into the treatment of Native Americans as a whole in US history, but whether white, black, brown or red, all the rest of Mankind hated the Comanche.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:48 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Read it, for anyone who thinks the Indians were peaceful civilized people who farmed the earth and never exploited it and that they were in any way compassionate and caring, this outs that all to flames. Comanche (and most tribes of the mid west) slaughtered women and babies and most males and tortured them while doing so. They were one step from barbarians and Comanche were the wrist and omitted all the others.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:49 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Good book, after reading it I have no idea how people survived out West like they did.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:54 pm to BluegrassCardinal
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Yep, just scrolled down and saw the book forum. Just thought it would be a break from the endless Pride threads, and Catholic v Protestant war.
Don’t worry, the book board is deader than Philzillas dick
Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:58 pm to BluegrassCardinal
EXCELLENT book!
Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:00 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Yes, it's a great book. I've spent countless days in the Comanche stomping grounds of Palo Duro and Blanco canyons. They were a fascinating people, ruthless no doubt, but they had to be.
They were responsible for so many reprehensible acts...but if buffalo were the basis for your entire existence, you would do whatever it takes to get the rid of the people doing this.
They were responsible for so many reprehensible acts...but if buffalo were the basis for your entire existence, you would do whatever it takes to get the rid of the people doing this.
This post was edited on 6/2/24 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:04 pm to Comancheria
Agreed, they were brutal as hell and found innovative ways to kill/torture.
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Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:10 pm to secfballfan
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anyone who thinks the Indians were peaceful civilized people who farmed the earth and never exploited it and that they were in any way compassionate and caring, this outs that all to flames
There’s a part where someone saw a white girl who had been captured by them, and she had been burned(as torture/punishment) so badly on her face that her nose was practically gone.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:16 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Delayed it by century and a half. They stopped the conquistadors in he early 1700s via the southern route. It’s why they settled from Tucson to the west coast , but couldn’t expand east. It’s also why Texas was settled to the southeast before the west and north. They pushed the Cheyenne and Sioux north to the Dakotas, as well as the Apache to the extreme southern parts of NM/Arizona and Northen Mexico. They owned the entire plains.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:16 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Listened to it. Great book, the Comanche were a horrifying people
Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:20 pm to BluegrassCardinal
I read it. Thought it was a very good book. The Comanches were badasses for sure, back in their day. I hope Sheridan doesn't mess up the story.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:25 pm to Comancheria
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They were responsible for so many reprehensible acts...but if buffalo were the basis for your entire existence, you would do whatever it takes to get the rid of the people doing this.
They were ruthless long before the buffalo hunters started exterminating the bufflalo. Their peak power was in the 1840s. The buffalo slaughter happened after the Civil War.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:26 pm to TigerFan91
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the Comanche were a horrifying people
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A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:28 pm to BluegrassCardinal
I read it....commache were truly lords of the plains before their end, but savages with nothing noble about em.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:28 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Great book! Something I find interesting is how much the Mongols and the Comanches were alike.
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