Quanah Parker’s Comanche Country

The five essential reads I recommend to anyone visiting Comanche Country are: The Great Plains by Walter Prescott Webb (University of Nebraska Press, 1981): One of the absolute definitive works of American history about this part of the continent. A workmanlike style, but a fascinating book. Goodbye to a River by John Graves (Alfred A. Knopf, 1960; Vintage, 2002): The best book ever written about Texas. He takes a trip by canoe down the Brazos River in the late 1950s, through what was once t