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I'm not really liking this book. I'm seeing a lot of generalizations and a lot of very charged language that undercuts any positive points Gwynne might be trying to make about the Comanches. He even blunders with the history of other tribes - I'm pretty sure the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 had a LOT more to do with the forced labor, imposition of Catholicism, and the suppression of Pueblo culture than it did the Spanish's inability to protect the Pueblos from the Apaches (pg. 30). But let's move on to this 'charged language' I'm talking about. He claims that agrarian societies are more 'civilized' than nomadic ones, that the nomadic tribes were "primitive, warlike hunters," that their saddles were "crude replicas" of Spanish gear (pgs. 30-31)... Good lord, WHEN did this come out again? It reads like something from 1950, and I don't mean that in a good way. He's also, um, wrong. The Comanches were by no means the only tribe to have bred horses. The Chickasaw pony was quite famous in its time as a sturdy little beastie, and of course there's the Appaloosa to contend with, which was bred by the Nez Perce... I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. Nonetheless, I'm not really inclined to trust his scholarship. And if I'm not able to trust his scholarship, then why am I reading this hyperbolic piece in the first place? I will, at least, give it this: it has a wonderful title, and I wish the actual book lived up to its promise.