Comanches by T.R. Fehrenbach

The History of a People

A sweeping history that traces the rise of a powerful Plains people from nomadic horse warriors and buffalo hunters who dominated the southern plains through raiding, trading, and diplomacy, to their eventual confinement on reservations under U.S. and Mexican pressure; it examines their social organization, warfare tactics, economic life, and interactions with settlers and governments, and explains the cultural and demographic forces that produced both their dominance and decline.

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