Kevin Lopez’s Reviews > Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History > Status Update

“The westward push of the Americans followed a radically different course [than the earlier, government and military-led expansions in the East and Midwest]. A ‘folk imperialism,’ its vanguard was not federal troops in federal forts but simple farmers imbued with a fierce Calvinist work ethic, steely optimism, and a cold-eyed aggressiveness that made them refuse to yield, even in the face of extreme danger.”