Title: Worse and worse
Product review: The US needs to get a life and balance; at one time any book mentioning a Native American just about had to contain the idea of "bloodthirsty" or "sneaky", even if the Native American was an old Navajo woman weaving blankets. Then there is this superficial mess, which extolls Quanah Parker to the point where you wonder if the man ever burped.Yes, it has a long and hairy index quoting sources, so you can be impressed (not). Yes, it gives an account of the man's life in the same superficial way as a history text from high school, mentions only Adobe Walls as any real confrontation, and more than half of the thing is devoted to the 'statesman' portrait Neeley attempts to draw of a man who had to sell out -- whether to save his people or for his own advantage is something you have to judge for yourself, as Neeley keeps trying to make him out as a 'statesman'. This book is insulting to the intelligence of almost anyone, never mind the Native American Indian.pat chapin[...]
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