A review by rachaelkei
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne

adventurous slow-paced

2.5

Very conflicted. I never learned anything about Comanches before but the author kept calling them primitive, barbaric while describing complex cultural and technological feats like surgery, communicating across the plains using pictographs, dances, horizontal political structures. I thought the book must have been written a long time ago. I was shocked that it was written in 2011. Would have liked more Native American accounts in the bibliography, though I understand those are less likely to survive.