American journalist and historian — author of Empire of the Summer Moon (on the Comanche and Quanah Parker) and Rebel Yell (on Stonewall Jackson) — Texas Monthly senior editor — the most readable popular historian of the American West and Civil War.
Creates Empire of the Summer Moon as the definitive narrative of Comanche power — Gwynne's account of the Comanche empire (which dominated the Southern Plains for 150 years and produced Quanah Parker) is the most complete synthesis of Comanche military history and the Parker family story in popular form.
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