The author is honest and gives a balanced view about both white Americans and American plains Indians. In the early 1870s, the Plains Indians were losing the battle for their land with the United States government.

After moving to the reservation, Quanah Parker got in touch with his white relatives from his mother's family. Cutting off the toes, the fingers and genitals of Spaniards, Americans and other frontiersmen, and stuffing them into their owners' mouths was common practice. The “white” buffalo hunters killed for profit, taking the hides and leaving the rest of the carcass to rot. Burnett helped by contributing money for the construction of Star House, Quanah Parker's large frame home. The cattle baron had a strong feeling for Native American rights, and his respect for them was genuine.Indeed, I think he makes a real effort to at least imagine what the life of a Comanche man or woman would have been like. They pushed the frontier boundary backward, nearly single-handedly, although the tribe was huge and expansive by this time. Comanche warriors often took on more active, masculine names in maturity, but Quanah Parker retained the name his mother gave him, initially in tribute to her after her recapture. I do congratulate [EDIT] (the author of) this book for not balking at the violence inherent in the Comanche.

The historical record mentions little of Quanah Parker until his presence in the attack on the buffalo hunters at Adobe Walls on June 27, 1874. The goal of the descendants of people from Europe was to work diligently to remove all native people from most of this land.They nearly annihilated certain tribes – such as the Apache and the Tonkawa – made treaties with other tribes, and consolidated their holdings into a roughly delineated land known as Comancheria, which comprised portions of present-day Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The author claims that his intention was to revise the myth that the Indians were victims - he accepts that they were the victims of some horrific acts, but disputes that they should be seen as innocent dupes.

For Cynthia Ann, it became too much, and the misfortunes of her fate are Shakespearian in their contours. Would they eventually have been rendered obsolete because of their inability and unwillingness to adapt to the ever-modernizing world around them? However there at one with nature and the surroundings is something that really intrigues me and something I wish we could do more of today.To fight an onset of blood burning fever, a Mexican curandera was summoned and she prepared a strong peyote tea from fresh peyote to heal him.