In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, S.C. Gwynne presents a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Gwynne's exhilerating narrative encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads -- a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine-year-old girl who was kidnapped by Comanches from the Texas frontier in 1836. She grew to love her captors and refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend.
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