*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Bo

Critical acclaim for The Last Comanche Chief "Truly distinguished. Neeley re-creates the character and achievements of this most significant of all Comanche lea

Quanah Parker is a figure of almost mythical proportions on the Southern Plains. The son of Cynthia Parker, a white captive whose subsequent return to white soc

A biography of Quanah Parker, a spiritual and political leader of the Comanche people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

For hundreds of years, only the Comanches knew of the secrets of the great plains of western Texas, but in 1836 white settlers and buffalo hunters began to encr