How does S. C. Gwynne use imagery in Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History?

Examples of Imagery:

"His mother's family offers a nearly perfect example of the sort of righteous, hard-nosed, up-country folk who lived in dirt-floored, mud-chinked cabins, played ancient tunes on the fiddle, took their Kentucky rifles with them into the fields, and dragged the rest of American civilization westward along with them."

"Most of the disposed Indians took their ragged, starving families and headed north to the designated Indian Territory, where some twenty thousand officially relocated Indians now jostled with one another and with the native plains tribes - the last stop on what came to be known as the 'trail of tears.'"