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Lifeways: The Comanche. New York: Benchmark Books, 2000. Brice, Donaly E. The Great Comanche Raid: Boldest Indian Attack on the Texas Republic McGowan Book Co. 1987 "Comanche" Skyhawks Native American Dedication (August 15, 2005) "Comanche" on the History Channel (August 26, 2005) Dunnegan, Ted.
Comanche County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. As of the 2020 census , its population was 13,594. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The county seat is Comanche . [ 3 ]
Comanche is a city located in Comanche County in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 4,211 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is the county seat of Comanche County.
The Comanche / k ə ˈ m æ n tʃ i / or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people" [4]) is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma. [1] The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto ...
The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid Native Americans ever mounted on white cities in what is now the United States. [3] It followed the Council House Fight, in which Republic of Texas officials attempted to capture and take prisoner 33 Comanche chiefs and their wives, who had earlier promised to deliver 13 white captives they had kidnapped. [4]
Brice, Donaly E. (1987), The Great Comanche Raid: Boldest Indian Attack of the Texas Republic, Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, ISBN 0-89015-594-1 Marks, Paula Mitchell (1989), Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick , Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, Number 30, College Station, Texas ...
The Antelope Hills expedition was a campaign from January to May 1858 by the Texas Rangers and members of other allied Native American tribes against Comanche and Kiowa villages in the Comancheria. It began in western Texas and ended in a series of fights with the Comanche tribe on May 12, 1858, at a place called Antelope Hills by Little Robe ...
Spanish and Comanche Texas in 1794. The Comanche were famous for their horsemanship and their large herds of horses. In 1766-1768 the Marqués de Rubí surveyed the beleaguered northern frontier of New Spain. Rubí recommended that Spanish settlements in Texas north of San Antonio be abandoned and that the Spanish make peace with the Comanche ...