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2 reviews
Catherine Anderson

HarperTorch, 1994

Comanche Magic ...
This book is the last installement in the Comanche saga books, starting with "Comache Moon" "Comanche Heart" "Indigo Blue" and then we have "Comanche Magic" the story of Indigo's brother Chase, and the woman he falls in love with, Franchine. Chase returns to Wolf's landing after several years of absence as he worked the timber business. Now he's back due to an injury. Life has made him a ...

Comanche Cowboy (Zebra Historical Romance)

3 reviews
Georgina Gentry

Zebra, 1999

Exciting! Exciting! Exciting!
Cayenne hires a half-breed (Maverick) to escort her thru wild Indian territory so she can get back home to help her father save his ranch. The book reveals it's secrets early on! There are no mysteries to the connection between the characters. However, the book is filled with more excitement than most any other book I have read! Cayenne and Maverick escape one dangerous situation after ...

The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker

8 reviews
Bill Neeley

Castle Books, 2007

Fascinating study of a Comanche legend and his culture
Bill Neeley gives new life to the legend of Quanah Parker, Numu Paraiboo. More than just a biography, this book gives valuable insights into the culture and lifestyle of the Numunuu people and the training of the "Lords of the Plains", the best mounted cavalry in the world. Highly recommend for its accuracy and truth. Five stars

Comanche Moon

16 reviews
Catherine Anderson

Signet, 2008

Take a journey you will never forget!
Orphaned after her parents were killed by Comanches, Loretta Simpson still lives in terror that the warriors will return, her fear so powerful, she is no longer able to speak a word. Hunter of the Wolf believes that Loretta is a woman of ancient prophecy whom he must honor. But Loretta can only see him as the enemy who has kidnapped her, and she refuses to succumb to his control--or his ...

Being Comanche: The Social History of an American Indian Community

2 reviews
Morris W. Foster

University of Arizona Press, 1992

Just a quick note
This book: Winner of the American Society for Ethnohistory's Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize. Just thought you'd like to know.

Comanche Moon : A Novel

140 reviews
Larry McMurtry

Simon & Schuster, 2000

real characters, in three dimension
I wish I had read the book before I saw the movie. So much more realism in the book. The characters seem to jump out of the pages and become real. I cant wait to get back to reading after I have stopped. I want to finish this so I can get to the next book.

Comanche Woman

23 reviews
Joan Johnston

Dell, 2002

What a GREAT BOOK!
I read the negative reviews on Comanche Woman so I was a little apprehensive but I read Frontier Woman so I decided to go for it. I did not feel at all like some of the other reviewers. I thought it was a wonderful love story. Long Quiet is a strong yet tender man who is torn between two worlds. Being half comanche he has stayed true to that side of his heritage. But Bay Stewart changes all ...

Comanche Heart

4 reviews
Catherine Anderson

HarperTorch, 1991

A true American Indian "bad boy"! very good!!
Amy Masters leaves Texas and travels to Oregon to become a teacher. After having been raped, she is afraid to try to love even though years earlier she pledged herself to Swift Antelope. He has never forgotten and once again this magnificent Comanche warrior finds her. Now, however, he is a nortorious gunslinger with his own problems, as he stands accused of a murder he didn't commit. He vows ...

Dead Man's Walk : A Novel

81 reviews
Larry McMurtry

Simon & Schuster, 2000

First in the series
What a great way to start. I love the background on the characters I fell in love with in Lonesome Dove. Can't wait to complete the whole series.

The Comanche Empire (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Pekka Hamalainen (Hamalainen)

Yale University Press, 2008

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political prestige, economic power, commercial reach, and cultural influence. Yet, until ...

Comanche Peace Pipe (Lone Star Heroes)

2 reviews
Patrick Dearen

Republic of Texas, 2001

Maynard "Fish" Rawlings, Jr.: A Lone Star Hero
In the character of Fish Rawlings, Dearen seems to have combined the youthful exuberance of Samuel Clemens' Huckleberry Finn with the adventurous independence of Rowdy Yates (a young Clint Eastwood) from the old popular television series "Rawhide." . . . For today's young readers who did not grow up with those television western series that starred young men like "Wagon Train's" Barnaby West, ...

The Comanche Indians (Native Peoples)
Bill Lund

Bridgestone Books, 1997

Help young readers gain an appreciation for the American Indian nations of North America and the roles they played in the history of the United States and continue to play today.

Comanche Moon

3 reviews
Jack Jackson

Reed Press, 2003

Accurate graphic novel format biography of Quanah Parker
Historically accurate biography of Quanah Parker, last Commanche to live free on the LLana Estacata of Texas. Also bio information about his mother Cynthia Ann Parker, a European girl captured and raised by Commanches as their own, later taken back by her white family by force after she had married and had children as a Commanche woman. Lots of information regarding the everyday life of ...

The Comanche (True Books)
Christin Ditchfield

Children's Press (CT), 2006

Warrior 75: Comanche 1800-74

2 reviews
Douglas V. Meed

Osprey Publishing, 2003

Interesting AND entertaining study of Comanche culture
Douglas Meed provides the reader with a fascinating insight into the culture of the Numunuu, "The Lords of the Southern Plains" by following the lifetime of a fictional protagonist, Spotted Pony. We follow Spotted Pony from birth to early training, his vision quest, coming of age as a warrior, becoming a chief in his own right and finally to his tragic end in the vicious Red River War. There's ...

Comanche Promise

4 reviews
Carol Finch

Zebra, 1998

THE BEST BOOK YET. UNBELIEVABLE. A KEEPER
My God... this is the type of book you can't, won't put down. What characaters. What a story line. So wonderfully written, so real. What a man, Three Wolves, Comanche gunslinger, and much more.. mysterious, calls upon the spirit becomes one with the wolves. A story that has me thinking all the time. Could there ever be such a man as Three Wolves?? Maybe not in this lifetime, but then ...

North American Indians - The Comanche (North American Indians)
Charles George

KidHaven Press, 2003

For more than a century, the Comanche Indians ruled the Southern Plains, a region that included much of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Oklahoma. Their mastery of the horse and their skills at warfare and hunting buffalo helped them defend their vast territory against all invaders, both red and white.

Comanche Dictionary and Grammar (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in ...

1 review
Lila Wistrand Robinson, James Armagost

Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1991

I'm not aware of a better Comanche language dictionary.
When I first received this dictionary I immediately began to look up several words my grandmother had told me. I was able to locate them easily even though the Comanche spelling scheme uses several peculiar characters (e.g. my grandmothers spelling of "posa tibo" was found under "po?sa taiboo?"). Since then I have used this book as a reference on a daily basis. It is an invaluable resource and a ...

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