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

Until the mid-19th century, the powerful Comanche nation controlled a vast stretch of Texas and New Mexico. This history recounts the intertwined fates of their last leader, Quanah Parker, son of the chief Peta Nocona and a white woman, Cynthia Ann Parker, and his nemesis, the ruthless Civil War veteran Ranald ‘Bad Hand’ Mackenzie, in the brutal wars that spelled the beginning of the end for Native Americans.