Not so much an engaging shoot ‘em up like Fehrenbach or Gwynn, more like a serious study of the Comanche themselves. There was more to ‘em than just implacable raiders.
One thing it looks at is the unsustainable impact of the Comanches themselves and their massive horse herds, particularly along the wooded valleys where they wintered.
Also not generally covered in most books is the switch of many Comanche and Kiowas themselves to a cattle-based economy as buffalo numbers dwindled.
1864, First Battle of Adobe Walls, Kit Carson found the Comanche and Kiowa camps surrounded by droves of cattle.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
