![]() I also found it fascinating that Cynthia Ann Parker, kidnapped by Comanches at age 9 and but later adopted by a Comanche family and then married a Comanche warrior was never able to readjust to life in whitelandia after being found and returned to her actual family at the age of 33. I knew they were incredible horsemen, but I had no idea just how incredible, or how young they started training with horses. That said, I really enjoyed about learning about the different types of Native Americans in the book, although the focus was definitely on the Comanches and plains Indians. He was supposedly the greatest of all the Comanche chiefs, and Gwynne didn’t much go into him, in spite of his name in the title. There was a lot about the history (of violence) between white settlers on the frontier and the Native Americans who already lived there, but Parker was a minor player during most of the novel. Maybe it’s because I was actually quite busy while I listened to the audiobook but I didn’t feel like he featured a lot. ![]() I’m not sure why they chose to add to the title about Quanah Parker. ![]() ![]() SC Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon was about the 40 years of conflict between white settlers and the Comanches on the open plains of the United States. This is the book I thought I was getting when I downloaded American Nations. ![]()
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