According to some, the best book ever written about Quanah Parker. Meticulously researched, and thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful American Indian tribe whose waged a forty-year battle with white settlers for control of the West. The book also provides a remarkable narrative of Cynthia Ann Parker who, as a child, was taken during a Comanche raid and later gave birth to a son, Quanah, who became the last of the great Comanche chiefs.

New York: Scribner, 2010. 1^st printing. 371 pages. Hardcover book has some minor dents and dings but overall is VERY GOOD. The dustjacket is in FINE condition.