West Routt Library District

After barely escaping nemesis Killer Boots in the tiny Arizona Territory town of Glorious, Cash McLendon is in need of a safe haven somewhere - anywhere - on the frontier. Fleeing Dodge City, he falls in with a band of buffalo hunters heading to forbidden Indian Territory in the Texas Panhandle.

Quanah Parker was among the last of the free-ranging Comanche warriors who once terrorized the high plains. Parker ascended to the rank of war chief through brave acts in almost constant warfare with Anglos and other Indian nations alike. But Parker was more than a warrior. A great political leader, he negotiated a peace treaty with the United States that spared his people the indignities heaped on other nations that fought back.

A Comanche family adopts Cynthia Parker after kidnapping her in 1836, and she gradually becomes one of them, marrying her captor.

A fictionalized biography of the last great Comanche chief, who wasthe son of a Comanche chief and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white settlerabducted by the Comanche as a child.

Traces the life of the American Indian chief who led the Comanches in the battle for their homeland and remained their leader on the reservation where he guided the people in accepting their new life.

"1892 Comanche reservation in present-day southern Oklahoma near Fort Sill (Lawton); North Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth, and Albany"--Provided by publisher.