“Mike Blakely’s unflinching story, steeped in Indian mysticism, shows how the long-abused Comanches mastered horsemanship and in a single generation became the fiercest warriors of the plains.” —Elmer Kelton

“Michael Blakely writes with authority and empathy about a people superbly suited to the land they roamed. He re-creates the Comanche’s everyday life and their momentous encounter with the horses that would carry them to greatness and the strangers who would take it from them.” —Lucia St. Clair Robson, author of Ride the Wind

“As an elderly Arapaho once told us: ‘If a man has never heard the thunder of horses running in his soul, his life will be forever hollow.’ With Comanche Dawn Mike Blakely turns the horses loose in all our souls. This is historical fiction at its best.” —W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’ Neal Gear

“A well made novel can sometimes inform a reader far better than documents of history. Comanche Dawn is such a novel.” —Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee