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brandiereadsbooks's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: War, Slavery, Murder, Gun violence, Rape, Colonisation, Torture, Violence, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail
acunkle's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Torture, Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Murder
pirateenthusiast's review against another edition
1.25
A well researched book. I learned a lot, but this is where the positives end. The language used in this book is repeatedly and horrendously racist. I'm not sure if this was the authors intention or not, but he portrays the Comanches and Native Americans as a whole as "backward stone age hunters". Gwynne claims to be providing an unbiased neutral book that shows both sides in an accurate light. He certainly succeeds in not straying away from the violence of the Comanches with his brutal and graphic descriptions, yet when he describes the violence of the other side, the terms are much more vague, giving the reader the wrong impression. Here is a list of words used in this book and the frequency that they appeared.
Native: 32
Indian(s): 1,177
Savage: 28
Primitive: 19
Redskin: 3
Squaw: 25
Indigenous: 1
Native: 32
Indian(s): 1,177
Savage: 28
Primitive: 19
Redskin: 3
Squaw: 25
Indigenous: 1
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Violence, Torture, War, Colonisation, Gore, Kidnapping, and Genocide
Moderate: Rape and Racial slurs
Minor: Animal death
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