Cañon City Public Library

Chief Quanah Parker, half-white, half Comanche, had fought a valiant battle to hold onto the Indians sacred hunting ground on the Llano Estacado in the Texas Panhandle. Organizing the Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes into a formidable army, he led the Indians in a successful five year war with the U.S. Army and buffalo hunters. The power of the federal government proved to be too strong, however, and in 1875, Quanah led his tribe of Kwahadi Comanches...

Jim Cole, a one armed ex-confederate Colonel, and his young side-kick, Ned Armstrong, battle the weather, Indians, buffalo hunters and the army to carve out a cattle empire in the high grass country of the Llano Estacado, during the years 1865 to 1875.