ABOUT THE BOOK: HONORED ENEMY
This historical novel adheres to the history of the Great Southwest in the late 1800s, a past shared by the Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes, as well as their adversaries, the United States Cavalry. Colonel Ranald Mackenzie’s Fourth Cavalry was pitted against Comanche war chief, Quanah Parker, and his Indian allies in a struggle for dominance in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma, as the whites recklessly squandered the vast buffalo herds.
Written after extensive research, the book sheds light on little-known events of the era, culminating in Parker’s friendship with President Theodore Roosevelt. Liberally illustrated by historic photographs, the book highlights the plight of the tribes, the loss of their mainstay food source, the buffalo, and the usurpation of their lands, and will give pause to all Americans young and old.
About the Author: Culver Modisette
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Culver Modisette, a 30 year former resident of Simsbury, attended Dartmouth College and worked for two decades as an advertising/PR executive until opening an outdoor sports business devoted to ecology sports The company offered guided canoe and hiking trips through Canada, the US and Alaska. Over the years, he came to admire and sympathize with the Athabaskan Indian people’s fortitude in the face of extreme poverty in the Arctic Circle, rural Alaska.
He eventually retired to be a tree farmer and Labrador breeder on 150 acres in Connecticut. Modisette is the president of the Northern Connecticut Land Trust and coaches the time-honored Indian game of lacrosse.
