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Book Review of Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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Well worth reading. Descriptions and history of the west and Texas from 1800's to 1900 is compelling. Tells the story of the changes in the lives of the Comanche nation and the last chief who led them, Quanah Parker. He was the son of a pioneer woman camed Cynthia Parker who was kidnapped during a Comanche raid and who grows up with the tribe.