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The summer moon novel7/6/2023 ![]() Gwynne)MEET THE AUTHORFraser Sherman was born in England and is now happily living in Durham, NC. He reasoned that if he found their history exciting and novel, other non-Texans, including New York editors, would have the same reaction. Having already written two nonfiction books, he decided to make the Comanches the subject of his third. Gwynne) Gwynne's research convinced him there hadn't been a significant book about the Comanches since Fehrenbach's 1974 history. "e This happened to me a lot."e (Interview with author S.C. After moving to Texas in the 1990s, Gwynne discovered that the Lone Star State still remembered the Indian Wars."e A woman might tell me that her great-grandparents were both killed by Comanches,"e Gwynne told the Historynet website. Fehrenbach's Comanche: The Destruction of a People. Intrigued, he began reading more books about the tribe, such as T.R. ![]() ![]() Webb mentioned in one chapter that the Comanche tribes had been a barrier to white settlement, something Gwynne, a northerner, had never heard of. Gwynne first became interested in the Comanches while reading Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Plains. ABOUT THE BOOK"e It seemed implausible that the westward rush of Anglo-European civilization would stall in the prairies of central Texas."e - S.C. ![]()
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