Volume 55, Number 9 · May 29, 2008
The Conquering Indians
By Larry McMurtry
The Comanche Empire
by Pekka Hämäläinen
Yale University Press, 500 pp., $35.00
Charles Goodnight, the great pioneering Texas cattleman, whose view of his fellow settlers (not to mention the human race) was seldom benign, once remarked that the appearance of a single Comanche could scare all the sorry white people out of ten counties. He himself traveled the vastness of the Comancheria—Comanche territory—at will, often alone but sometimes with the black cowboy Bose Ikard, for whom he wrote this epitaph:
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