For a complete history of the Comanches, this book probably has no equal. Dee Brown, author of
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee This is a very good book. Like virtually all good books about the American Indian, it tells a tragic story, but unlike many of them, it tells it well. The author has mastered an extensive and complex subject: he is flexible, well-organized, and sensitive. Larry McMurtry
Fehrenbach is a highly interpretive and original writer, whose work rests on solid scholarship. His book ranges grandly across the disciplines from folklore to anthropology to history.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly"
"For a complete history of the Comanches, this book probably has no equal." -Dee Brown, author of
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee "This is a very good book. Like virtually all good books about the American Indian, it tells a tragic story, but unlike many of them, it tells it well. The author has mastered an extensive and complex subject: he is flexible, well-organized, and sensitive." -Larry McMurtry
"Fehrenbach is a highly interpretive and original writer, whose work rests on solid scholarship. His book ranges grandly across the disciplines from folklore to anthropology to history." -
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
The definitive history of a remarkable people, from their prehistoric origins to their destruction in the mid-19th century.