Quanah Parker Rides Again

All Sam Gwynne wanted to do was write a book about the American West, specifically about Quanah Parker and the Comanches. “I would have been happy if it had sold 2,000 copies just because I wanted to do it and I loved the subject,” Gwynne says from his home in Austin, Texas. His publisher might have expected a few more sales than that, but even Scribner certainly wasn’t thinking bestseller. “The first printing I seem to remember was less than 10,000,” Gwynne says. “That’s