Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

This book is avisceral historical account of the forty-year war between the Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centered on the rise and fall of the most powerful tribe in American history.

This book contains: alcohol abuse, animal cruelty, body horror, cannibalism, captivity, controversial cultural and racial commentary, death (excessive-humans and animals), deception, depression, derogatory terms, discrimination, forced concubinage, grief, gore, infanticide, medical horror, potentially patently offensive content, potentially pervasively vulgar content, profanity (minor), public sexual violation, racism, ritualized self-harm, sadomasochism, sexual assault/rape (including gang rape) and battery, sexual exploitation, sexual mutilation, sex slavery, suicide, and violence (excessive).

 

This book is a work of narrative history, the book's intense violence is a factual necessity for understanding the brutal "warrior culture" of the Texas-Indian wars.