The Comanche examines the people who built a powerful equestrian society across the southern Plains. It traces migration, the adoption of the horse and the development of trade, diplomacy and warfare that made Comancheria a major regional power.
The book follows relations with Spanish, Mexican, Native and American neighbours, including raiding, captivity and commercial exchange. It then examines disease, buffalo destruction and military campaigns that forced confinement to reservations, while continuing into the history of the modern Comanche Nation.
