Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history

Comanche chief Quanah was the son of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was kidnapped as a nine-year-old girl by the Comanches, and became known as the "White Squaw." This book provides new information on the tribe that waged war for forty years, and prevented simple colonization of Texas and other parts of the west.