“The deal they were offered seemed almost too good to be true,” writes Gwynne. The saga begins in 1833 when 30 oxcarts carried "an extended family of religious, enterprising transplanted easterners known to their neighbors as the Parker Clan” from Illinois to Texas. In Quanah Parker, Gwynne has found the perfect vehicle for telling that story. But while this is a non-fiction book about war, it is equally a book about two nations trying to control their destinies by whatever means necessary. Gwynne, the former executive editor of Texas Monthly, details the atrocities perpetrated by each side in living color to do otherwise would be dishonest. In truth, the forty-year battle between the Comanche and the white man for control of the Great Plains and Texas was not so antiseptic.
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