quanah. i wanted to ask you to think historically. i remember in the office however many years ago now you were talking you were going to write this book and i've gotten excited about it because of my training. we talked about certain specific things i knew a little bit about and was amazed at what what you have uncovered. i want to throw up to date sea of that seems significant to me in this book. in terms of what the comanche were able to do and in terms of one, the apex of their power and particularly as it related to dealing with the spanish and then when macy begins to wane as they begin to fight with mckinsey and his troops that take off from west fort worth. once is march 1758 and 1 as october 1871 when mckinsey begins to push west and it becomes the most feared indian fighter from the comanche standpoint. can you talk a little bit about those two dates, the battle of san saba and what mckinsey was able to accomplish and how they inform their understanding of the comanche? >> i think w

quanah parker was really good at it. quanah parker was the guy. he was a talker. he was optimistic, out there, gregarious, social, positive, a recruiter. the things that made him a great chief in some ways carry over. now, it did not carry over to other people who were good at being a chief. there was something about him, and i don't know where it came from. he had an optimism and a hope and a feeling that things are going to get better. and he get to the reservation he was like everybody else, waiting in line for rations, living in a tepee with nothing. yes, he thought things were going to get better. one of the reasons i love quanah parker is he is a great american hero, but he shared but i think to me is probably the single most defining american trait, and that is just sheer optimism. the belief that it is going to work and you're going to get better and kids will have it better than you do and that he will do better this year than you did next year. he believed that through. he donated a school at some point and became the first chairman of the school board b