Comanche Sundown: A Novel [Hardcover] Reid, Jan

Comanche Sundown is the story of the great war chief Quanah Parker, a freed slave and cowboy named Bose Ikard, and the women they love In 1869 Quanah and Bose do their best to kill each other in a brutal fight on horseback in West Texas But over several years, through the flash and chaos of war and killing they discover that they are friends, not enemies They change from violent unformed youths into men of courage and decencyThe son of the ferocious warrior Nocona and the tragic captive Texan Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah suffers the wound of being slurred and rejected by many Comanches as someone of impure blood and certain bad luck When told he cannot marry his youthful love Weckeah, he rides off and joins another band of his people in the canyonlands and plains of the Texas Panhandle Later, when Quanah has just emerged as a war chief in a daring rout of army cavalry, in defiance of elders and tradition he elopes with Weckeah and leads a following of the wildest Comanche bunch of allThe enslaved son of a white physician, Bose is freed by the Civil War and rides on trail drives of longhorns into New Mexico Territory that are led by the pioneering Charles Goodnight Bose winds up captured, utilized, and eventually valued by Quanah and his people That period in young Boses life brings him into intoxicating friendship with Quanahs other wife, Tohayea, a Mescalero Apache and born heartbreakerComanche Sundown lays out a sprawling and plausible recast of Southwestern history that brings Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, Bat Masterson, Colonel Ranald Bad Hand Mackenzie, and General William T Sherman into one fray In the tradition of Thomas Bergers Little Big Man, William Styrons The Confessions of Nat Turner, Larry McMurtrys Lonesome Dove, and Cormac McCarthys All the Pretty Horses, Jan Reids novel offers a rich blend of historical detail, exquisite eye for the terrain and the animals, and insight into the culture, customs, poetry, and dignity of Native Americans caught up in a desperate fight to survive ISBN10: 0875654223 ISBN13: 9780875654225Material Type: hardcover