I have no clue how it’s received as a scholarly work, or by the Comanche themselves, but “Empire of the Summer Moon” is a fantastic book on the rise and fall of the Comanches. The long story short is that they captured feral horses lost by the Spanish, trained to be insanely good at riding, rearing, and fighting off of horses. They then took to the great plains as nomadic bison hunters. There were never really that many of them, but they controlled a huge area as basically the mongols of the great plains.
I have no clue how it’s received as a scholarly work, or by the Comanche themselves, but “Empire of the Summer Moon” is a fantastic book on the rise and fall of the Comanches. The long story short is that they captured feral horses lost by the Spanish, trained to be insanely good at riding, rearing, and fighting off of horses. They then took to the great plains as nomadic bison hunters. There were never really that many of them, but they controlled a huge area as basically the mongols of the great plains.
That’s what I read too - it was a fantasticly interesting book.