Features & Benefits
- Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award
- Stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West
- Enthralling narrative encompassing Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads
- Meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and thrillingly told
- Announces S. C. Gwynne as a major new writer of American history