“Reads briskly and is leavened with much Comanche lore.” —Publishers Weekly on Comanche Dawn

“Painstakingly researched and carefully written, the novel is an obvious labor of love that merits comparison with such established classics as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Little Big Man, and Hanta Yo.” —Booklist on Comanche Dawn

“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 on Comanche Dawn

“Mike Blakely writes with authority and empathy about a people superbly suited to the land they roamed.” —Lucia St. Clair Robson, author of Ride the Wind on Comanche Dawn

“Mike Blakely turns the horses loose in all our souls.” —W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear on Comanche Dawn