Originally Posted by Steve_NO
Originally Posted by Boggy Creek Ranger
Good book. Have you read Comanches The Destruction of a People by T R Fehrenbach? Another very good read.


"I find this book a refreshing and thorough treatment of a historical period within the lifespans of many of our great-great-grandfathers that bordered on, in some ways, Jurassic Park ..."

It wasn't really that far back. I knew a man who killed two Comanches who tried for him west of what is now Crosbyton Texas. He was sage hen hunting when they jumped him. Read the old newspaper account of it and listened to him tell the story.

BCR



damn, Ranger, now you're gonna set off Birdwatcher.....he and I had an extended PM exchange where he vented his issues with Fehrenbach. I liked his book and really enjoyed Empire of the Summer Moon.


My brother majored in history at U of H and got an M.A. at Tulane, before he decided that he needed to make a living and went to law school. He probably has an even dimmer view of Fehrenbach than Birdy does. I have to admit that there are better books about Indians in Texas, but you kind of have to read Fehrenbach just to get full range of the historical treatments. Kind of like reading Walter Prescott Webb's history of the Texas Rangers--good reading when you're a kid, but somewhat lacking in objectivity.


Ben

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