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The Junior Library of American Indians: The Comanche Indians. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1993. Native Americans: Comanche Archived 2011-09-11 at the Wayback Machine (August 13, 2005). Richardson, Rupert N. The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement: A Century and a Half of Savage Resistance to the Advancing White Frontier ...
James Richard Hebbron, a local rancher, who donated land for the town's railroad station. Hemphill: Sabine: John Hemphill, an early Texas judge and legal scholar, and later a United States senator: Hempstead: Waller: Dr. G.S.B. Hempstead of Portsmouth, Ohio, brother-in-law of town co-founder Dr. Richard Rodgers Peebles Henderson: Rusk
Cynthia Ann Parker, Naduah, Narua, or Preloch [7] (Comanche: Na'ura, IPA:, lit. ' Was found '; [8] October 28, 1827 [nb 1] – March 1871), [1] was a woman who was captured, aged around nine, by a Comanche band during the Fort Parker massacre in 1836, where several of her relatives were killed.
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]
The Battle of Plum Creek was a clash between allied Tonkawa, militia, and Rangers of the Republic of Texas and a huge Comanche war party under Chief Buffalo Hump, which took place near Lockhart, Texas, on August 12, 1840, following the Great Raid of 1840 as that Comanche war party then returned to west Texas.
Richard P. Raymond (born 1960), South Texas state representative Ron Reynolds (born 1973), African-American Democratic member of Texas House of Representatives from District 27 in Missouri City Ann Richards (1933–2006), second woman governor of Texas (1991–1995); state treasurer (1983–1991)
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 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.