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Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, historian and anthropologist, . . . have re-created the life of the bold, confident people who . . . dominated the prairies of the Southwest. All of it is here: the toil and stress and joyous ingathering of the buffalo harvest, the exultant feats of horsemanship, the happy sociability of the tepee village, the excitement of war and raiding. Then military defeat and the loss of the buffalo, the frustrations of the reservation experience with the failure to bring back the old order by dancing and 'medicine,' and finally the mystical escape through Father Peyote. . . . In its interpretation of the Comanches' way of life, the book achieves its aim of satisfying both the general reader and the anthropologist. It is a good story well told, without romanticizing, but with understanding and detachment. Here [is] a people perfectly adapted to their environment, loving their life and their wild land and sky."" - Angie Debo, in the New York Times Book Review

The Comanches

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      Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
      Published 30 September 1987
      ISBN-13 9780806120409
      978-0806120409
      ISBN-10 0806120401
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      Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity

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      Trade Review
      Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, historian and anthropologist, . . . have re-created the life of the bold, confident people who . . . dominated the prairies of the Southwest. All of it is here: the toil and stress and joyous ingathering of the buffalo harvest, the exultant feats of horsemanship, the happy sociability of the tepee village, the excitement of war and raiding. Then military defeat and the loss of the buffalo, the frustrations of the reservation experience with the failure to bring back the old order by dancing and 'medicine,' and finally the mystical escape through Father Peyote. . . . In its interpretation of the Comanches' way of life, the book achieves its aim of satisfying both the general reader and the anthropologist. It is a good story well told, without romanticizing, but with understanding and detachment. Here [is] a people perfectly adapted to their environment, loving their life and their wild land and sky."" - Angie Debo, in the New York Times Book Review

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