Charles E. (goldenhawk) reviewed on 11/19/2014 + 3 more book reviews

The Comanche tribe, consisting of at least 5 subgroups, speaking a dialect of the Shoshone language, along with their allies the Kiowas and mixed blood Comancheros, ruled a huge area of the Southwest high plains. They hunted the buffalo, numbering in the millions, from horseback for hundreds of years. The horse, introduced by the Spaniards in the 1500s, profoundly transformed their society and culture, as it became an extension of the individual Comanche. Young men learned how to ride, break, fight, trade, capture, and hunt atop a horse like no other tribe of Indians. The horse was a symbol of wealth and prestige. The complete story of the tribes' history, researched extensively using a large number of first hand accounts from the era, is ably told by the author. After the tribe was decimated by half from disease and low birth rate, its inevitable decline and submission by white society is factually related through the life of its last noble leader, Quanah Parker, the half breed son of captive Cynthia Ann Parker and chief Peta Nocona,

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