Empire of the Summer Moon (Actual Locations Today) 

Man, that was good sir. My father was born in a dugout on the Slaughter ranch near Morton Texas in 1929 and always told me that my grandmother was Commanche. I've never investigated any of it but it's fascinating and the timing makes sense. He's 92 and still with us but I really need to try and get more info. I appreciate your time and effort.

I'm pretty familiar with the landscapes of West Texas and its small towns. You did a fantastic job with the photography! It's great to see the actual locations of these incredible historical events.

I love this book. after I read it I went to as many of the locations as I could. I am from and live in Amarillo, so I have not had to travel real far.

For more on the Comanches, read Comanches by T.R. Fehrenbach. Plains Indian Raiders by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye is another although it covers more tribes than just the Comanche.

The book is outstanding. The Comanches were formidable, and their raids amazing; raid from Llano Estacado to Victoria - about 600 miles. Nice video.

I’ve read Empire of the Summer Moon three times over…you did a solid job sticking to the facts/book. Also, great job editing and shooting (those drone takes were awesome). Keep up the good work man. You should definitely do more of these videos where you visit a historical site while telling its background story. I feel it’s a niche market that would draw in a lot of viewers.

As a kid in the 80s I lived in the Mosier Valley area of Euless, TX.. we used to go play in the creeks and woods, we would find arrowheads and things pretty often. Years later I learned about the Tribe that lived in that area and The battle of Village Creek. 30 something years later almost all of it's gone due to neighborhoods and warehouses...

I live in England and am a keen student of the American West. I've just read the book and your video has been the perfect and very polished supplement to a superbly told story. (And it saves me a long trip!) Professional job. Thanks so much for posting it,

I visited Adobe Walls last year. It's a hard place to find, but well worth it. I'm 67 from Illinois and have read much on Charles Goodnight. My great Aunt visited Goodnight Texas in 1908 all the way from Athens, IL as a young woman by car. Well done.

When they built the Verrazano bridge here in NY there was a few native American iron workers who worked on it a few of them were neighbors and hung out in my father's bar they were so nice when I was 12 they took me to Oklahoma I sat and listened to a elder tell old stories my neighbor told me I was lucky cause they wouldn't allow outsiders in I always have had this inner thing about that area there was a aire about it and the people were so nice the older woman watched me like I was there own making sure I was fed I was warm the kids my age were fun and did not make me feel outta of place

Thank you for this! I got interested in the Comanche many years after reading “Ride the Wind”. Then read many more books about all this. My daughter & I drove down to the Texas panhandle to Palo Duro Canyon. I was born & still live in Oklahoma. Raised in Hominy, among the Osage. Then later found out that my 5th great grandfather was a famous Cherokee chief (Oconastada, Stalking Turkey). There’s a painting of him in Gilrease Museum. Then found out my great grandmother was Cherokee. Never knew any of this till I was in my 40’s! My mom’s side of the family just never talked about the past!

Born in Southwest Oklahoma and raised there, I came to love the Comanche and Kiowa history. This is a great little video. Study of the book is absolutely essential if you love the history of Plains Indians.

This thing is sick. I can’t start to say how good of a job you did with this. Insane. And the editing. Good grief. This is next level stuff and possibly the best you have done (IMO).

I am a descendant of Quanah Parker. Sadly I don't know much of the history of the Comanche. I will be reading this book. Great video!

Thanks for taking the effort and time to enlighten us, i'm half way through the book, always wondering what certain places looked like, imagine being able to ride through that massive expanse and there were no roads, fences, bridges etc. No one won in the end just a lot of deaths, pain and loss, nothings changed through the ages. The one person that tugged at my soul was Cynthia Ann, all she wanted was to go back and see her boys, what a cruel end to a tough woman, no justice!

This was the best book I read last year! I've recommended it to a lot of people.

I am reading the book now and often stop and look up names and places online but it is hard to grasp the vastness of Comancheria with maps and photos. You did an excellent job using the drone to bring all of that to life. You can clearly see that west of the 98th and 100th meridian, few trees were visible, only shrub, land and more land as far as the eye could see.

I grew up in the area (San Antonio-Austin) that was often mentioned in the book. I got hooked immediately, we were never taught this real Tx & Ok history in school. I never knew the power the native Americans exerted for several hundred years in this region. The early settlers paid a heavy price for invading these native lands.

Best book I've ever read. Excellent.

Man this is bad ass!!! I live around Clinton, Ok and I’ve been to the Star house in Cache I think we should set up some kind of go fund me to get that thing reconstructed along with the other historical buildings on that property. There’s a house that Frank James stayed in and an old school from Cache as well as an old wooden roller coaster. But the Quanah house has such historical value to this country it needs to be saved!!!

Fantastic video, sir. I taught Texas History for a number of years and this would have been a great help to the students, actually seeing and hearing about what we were learning from different perspectives. I, myself being a native East Texan, often wondered about most of the Panhandle area locations while I was reading the book. We used to stop at Silver Falls outside of Crosbyton on the way out to visit family in Lubbock, but that was way back in the 80s. Google Earth could only show me so much, but you have gone above and beyond. Well done and thank you!

Man this is great! Excellent job sir! I LOVE learning about past Texas/Native American history!

very well done, thanks I have the book, great to be able to see the locations in this way. I have fond memories from childhood riding horses at Eagle Park visiting the Quanah Parker house in Cache in the early 60's. Love the history of Quanah Parker and Geronimo.

Fascinating companion material for the book. I've been to a few of those places in both Texas and Oklahoma. I'm an Okie myself, living down here in Texas. Thanks for the great material

Bro, that was a heck of a job! I know you put a lot of time and effort into it and it shows! Really enjoyed it!

I am part Cherokee and grew up in central Oklahoma. I am 71. We learned a little of the Native history but nothing close to what they know today. I had no idea Oklahoma was such a rich historic area. But I am glad that I grew up on the prairie riding horses bareback and felt my blood.

Awesome video. Couldn't have been better..Excellent re-telling of the events and places. Please do more!!!

Awesome video and work, man. Great job, and great information. Well done! 💯

Excellent video for anyone who has read the book.. You have done a great job and this really makes the locations of the historical events come alive. The drone shots of the magnificent landscape are excellent, and make you visualize the time when the Indians ruled and the white man had not arrived, and millions of buffalo and other animals covered the ground everywhere. It was an incredible natural paradise that we today can only try to imagine. Sometimes I wish I could turn back the clock to the way it used to be. It's also one of the most tragic, violent, heart-breaking stories in human history.

Fantastic job! One of the best if not the best video clip on you tube! Thank you

Great work. I am a great great grandson of Chevato who married one of Quanah Parker’s nieces. My uncle William Chebahtah authored a book called “Chevato” if you’re interested in more literature.

Excellent job, with attention to detail, and accuracy. Thank you so much for your work.

I agree with you about Nocona. This is an incredible video, read the book many times and you did a great job. Much appreciated

Well done! Very interesting and some great drone footage.

Wow beautiful shots and great storytelling 👍🏼 thanks for your work.

I live in Comanche county Texas, I can show you two camps ( winter and summer) the honeyeater Comanche used after the railroad came thru. They traded for wealth and information from this spot until they were ostracized. One of the rental homestead places on the ranch I used to run was known as the Parker place. Contact me if you want to see what I'm talking about.

Fantastic book, thank you for this.

I found your research and the numerous stories so fascinating that I had to subcribe.

What a book , got to say it's my fav book

Can't believe we missed this. Love it, great job!

Every informative and well done Great job, thank you,

This is so great…I loved the this book and caught myself trying to identify some of the key locations.

Great book that I have read recently, so to be able to see the actual locations has been very helpful and informative. Excellent job fellas…..👏

I LOVE THAT BOOK! Thank you for this Amazing video!!!

“Nine Years Among the Indians” another excellent portrait of the people, times, and places. By Herman Lehmann. As well as “Indian depredations in Texas” by Willbarger

FANTASTIC video!! I’ve been fascinated and obsessed with this local history since I moved here in 89. Man you’ve filled in a lot of gaps and answered some questions for me with this video! Excellent job sir! Keep em coming

Great video and good historical location shots.

Hey, you did great work with your research and traveling to locations across TX and OK. There are a lot of miles between many of these locations, which many may never realize if you had not been so careful to point out in maps. It was great to see the landscape of the particular areas as well. Thank you

Thank you! I'm filled with awe.

Thank you, your video added more info. onto that great book .

Thank you so much for the video, time, and effort. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Am presently reading and enjoying the book. This video has been very helpful for me in imagining the locations.

This is wonderful! Thank you 🌹

I literally just finished reading empire of the summer moon an hour ago. As the battles grounds were mentioned i would look them up. Thank you for undertaking such a large effort to document these sites. Great video

Excellent-I was born in Dallas and amazed at your video- many thanks

I have begun reading this book and your video will help add to my visualization of occurrences throughout the book. Thank you.

Sir, I wanna thank you for a very moving and educational tour . I'll buy this book and follow sites you've mentioned. Thanks again for your great work.

You did American history a wonderful service by making this video. Thank you!

Mate I love this video. I like the way you told the story in your own way 💯

Really cool video! Thanks for sharing it.

Excellent historical presentation and your research is evident.

Man this is such a cool video! Well done man

Great job!! From the Medicine Lodge area. Always love good exposé on this subjects!!! Watching this while working on a new oil well in Comanche County, Kansas at 8:30pm.

Grew up near Boston, and live in Lawton FT Sill OK for 10 years. It's such an amazing place the whole area as a whole... Comanche territory

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

This is an EXCELLENT historical video. I’m a history addict and my son is becoming one as well being around me. Every time we move we have to know the history of where we move to, but couldn’t find any good history vids about ft sill and the Wichita tribe and mountains. We couldn’t understand why the government grouped up more than one tribe counting them all as the Witchita tribe until now. We’ve also discovered why they took their reserve and just gave them plots of land separate from your vid. We listened to a Comanche tell us they took our reserve and gave us plots because they feared another uprising and us conspiring with others to take them on again. Now we get it all pieced together. We still can’t find the history of Ft Sill and Lawton, but we didn’t know that signal hill was so important until now and we pass that driving past the ranges to explore the Wichita Mountain preserve on the weekends. Now we know. Thank you so much for caring about our history and passing it on to your kids and mine. ❤❤

Awesome video… I’m about to finish the book myself and this video A) helps clear my understanding of what I was reading, but B) helps visualize what it would’ve looked like all those years ago. Much appreciate your time and effort in creating this video.

Amazing job visiting all these sites and documenting the history that took place there. We always only imagine how events such as these may have taken place but you actually brought us there. Can’t imagine the time and expense incurred in finding these sites as well as documenting and editing everything. Thank you.

Thank you for this education, I’ve heard of this book and will be ordering.

Great Video! I really appreciate you sharing this.

This is really good photography. I could almost feel the breeze through the camera! Nice!!!

I read the book and found it extremely interesting. This put so much into prospective. Thanks for sharing this!

I found this to be a truly detailed reveal of the life and evolving time during the new world for settlers and a lost future for the Indian populations with their traditions .

Most good video. Thank you for sharing ❤😊

Amazing!! Really great job on this.

Amazing book and amazing video. First time I have heard of your account, great job!

Darn, now I have to read the book again, having seen the actual site. Great job!

I just read the book a few weeks ago. My mom wanted to read it and enjoyed it as well. I’m emailing her the link to this video. Thanks for your work in making this. Regards, WP

Thankyou I’ve read the book but live in England, so was great to see these places 😊😊

Very informative; compliments information I received from my two grandmothers who were born and raised on the pairy in southwest Kansas in the 1870's. I also read the book. Thank you.

Thanks. Just a survey format, but well done. I also was born and raised in this area of OK and do much reading re: the local histories. Now in my eighth decade, I wish for another 80 yrs. to read and explore more SW OK and Texas histories. I appreciate the elevated drone shots of these areas: a touch of panache.

This is your finest work Steve!

Great job of summarizing a great deal of information. I had always been fascinated by the story of Cynthia Ann Parker and was astonished to recently discover that she died and was first buried not 25 miles from my home in East Texas. I visited the cemetery just a few months ago.

Incredible, I actually read Empire of the Summer Moon, and a fiction partially based on that book called the Son. I read the Son twice. Thanks so much for sharing this! I'm half Mexican and feel connected to the history of these people and places. I live in Texas.

Wow bro how I envy you. I wish I could go to all those locations in person. Thanks for this video. It's great. Especially the drone footage.

Excellent job!

Fabulous effort and thank you. This man from NZ has Gwynne's book right in front of him, and all though harrowing, a indelible history that has riveted me for decades. A truly remarkable people, Hunter Gatherers that they were, there mastery of the Horse, including breeding, surely stands out, alongside there remarkable military horsemen ship.

Thank you for making this, It's my favorite book and I've been trying to do the same. We went to the San Saba Presidio last spring.

I’m reading that book right now. I from the Houston area and attended Cynthia Ann Parker Elementary. Because of this and my love history I’ve been interested in the Comanches. Thank you, this was great and very interesting. I plan to see these sites after I do my third trip to Virginia and surrounding for Civil War and Revolutionary War sites. Again thank you.

Excellent,well done video.

Marʉawe! This is an outstanding video. Great job.

Excellent and informative video.

Great !!! I’m gonna go, thanks for the video!

Enjoyed the film and the narrative. A lot of history occurred in the southern plains that has been overlooked in the books and films in the past. Cut Throat Gap; Medicine Bluffs; the Adams Hill Tar Pit at Fort Sill (visited by Comanche and others) is the oldest tar pit in North America; and many other such sites all have unique histories.

Great video reading the book now helps envision it thanks bro

Live close to this area the family and I go every summer! Also nice edits and over all whole video nice work!

Great job!

Just came across your channel. Great content! This video is amazing!

Excellent video.

Excellent work