and cynthia ann parker and the whole story of cynthia ann to quanah had kind of been lost. i think people over a certain age in texas all know the cynthia ann parker story. i think there was a bit of forgetting history. my daughter goes to high school, she does not. it was an opportunity to do this story. but the other side of it, and this gets to your question of structure. what i wanted to do was, you know, i wanted to tell -- what i've been talking about mainly here, i guess, is the rides and fall of the comanches, the big picture rise and fall from their roots, their obscure roots in wyoming to the peak of their power to their fall in 1875. that's great, epic, big story. but what's cool is inside that story there was this wonderful little human narrative of the parker family. and what enabled me to do as an editor -- brian, by the way, is one of the finest editors on the planet earth who somehow, miraculously, all of my best stories for texas monthly was edited by brian. what was i saying? is. [laughter] >> how great i am. >> oh, yeah, before i said how great you were. [