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The Comanche Empire (Nonfiction)

by | Jul 1, 2008 | Western Books

Pekka Hamalainen, Yale University Press, $35, Hardcover.
Hamalainen moves the Comanches up a notch in terms of their resistance to invaders, beyond that of Apaches and Sioux. He claims that their domination of other Plains tribes—Lipans, Wichitas, Tonkawas—and barrier to Hispanic and white advances was so complete that Comancheria, in its heyday of 1750-1850, deserves to be called an empire. Hamalainen insists that the


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