The history of the Comanches, an American Native Indian tribe that fought for their American West land settlements against white settlers who were expanding their own need for place. Empire of the Summer Moon gives us the stories as shared by Quanah Parker, the mixed-blood son of a pioneer woman, Cynthia Ann Parker. Gwynne recreates the brutal struggle between these two powerful, uncompromising forces for a riveting account of the birth of the American West.
