and say that it is no exaggeration to describe their story from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century as the rise and fall of the Comanche Empire. Oral history and written records help ...

This story appears in the March 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In September 1874, in the panhandle of Texas, the great Comanche equestrian empire came to an ugly and sorrowful end.

EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan and his Bosque Ranch have optioned the S.C. Gwynne book Empire of the Summer ... decade struggle between the Comanche tribe and white settlers ...