Southern Tribes research

[c2q23]

Hey everybody- I've been lucky to come across this site, it's exactly what I was looking for! I am a student at a small western college and I'm doing a comprehensive research paper as part of my American West history class. I've decided to write about the Southern Plains wars, roughly from the Medicine Lodge Creek treaty to Quanah's surrender at Fort Sill. So far I have used the following books for my research:

The Comanches: Lords of the Southern Plains by Ernest Wallace

The Kiowas by Mildred P. Mayhall

The Warren Wagon Train Raid by Benjamin Capps

The Texas Panhandle by Frederick W. Rathjen

Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains by Stan Hoig

Conquering the Southern Plains by Peter Cozzens

One Hundred Summers by Candace S. Greene

I'm also planning to peruse Empire of the Summer Moon, The Comanche Empire, and Comanches: The Destruction of a People. If you guys have any recommendations of books about the Kiowas, Comanches, or the history of the Texas Panhandle and the Llano Estacado, any recommendations at all, please let me know!

Thanks!

[grahamew]

From what I've read of Empire of the Summer Moon, the early section seems something of a rehash of Feherenbach's unflattering views of the Comanche life as brutal and savage and the author gives the impression he likes to dwell on this... To counter this, try Gary Clayton Anderson's Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised land 1820-1875. I'm sure Dr Tom Kavanagh, who has contributed elsewhere on this board will offer you better advice than I have!

[tkavanagh]

Ura, gramamew, for the nod.

c2q23:

You are interested in the "Southern Plains wars"? Ah, where to begin. From your short list, I presume you are refering to the post -1867 so-called Red River War. There's a lot more before that, ya know.

I can speak only of the Numunuu.

Ultimately, the modern source will be my _The Comanches: A History_. It summarizes all other (as best as I could) available primary sources.

tk

ps., re: "The Comanches: Lords of the Southern Plains by Ernest Wallace"

That should be _The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains_ by Ernest Wallace AND E. Adamson Hoebel. Even though the modern Comanche Nation embraces it, the epigram "Lods of the South Plains" was invented by Wallace in the early 1950s; I have found no pre-1970 usage.

tk