The common perception of Comanche Indians was shaped by Hollywood ... were the scourge of the Southern Plains. And it’s true they dominated Oklahoma and Texas, eastern Colorado, western Kansas ...

In 1836, a 9-year-old pioneer girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped during a Comanche raid in North Texas ... back into the Plains where the powerful American Indian tribe lived.

Prior to the 17th century, the tribe of Indians known ... an effect on the Great Plains as steam and electricity had on the rest of human civilization. Driving through West Texas and the Panhandle ...

Settlers poured into Texas and the Great Plains, but many retreated ... diverted the Rangers’ attentions from the Indians to our neighbors to the South. The Comanche were still causing havoc ...

Description: The Comanche people, an imposing people living in southern areas of the Great Plains ... According to the government, the Indians would hunt only within the limits of their proclaimed ...

Among the most feared mounted warriors in history, the Comanche forged a nomadic culture that served as a model for other Plains Indians ... much of modern-day Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma ...

One year, a Texas Indian agent named Leonard Williams and two other men finally stumbled across her in a Comanche camp on a High Plains river ... Nocona as “a great, greasy, lazy buck.” ...

The series is edited by Jack Becker a librarian at Texas Tech ... “The Indians whipped me in this fight.” The Comanche-Kiowa alliance had resoundingly driven the great Indian fighter from ...

In the 19th century, U.S. settlement of the western plains was held back for decades primarily by one Native American Indian tribe ... Gwynne says the last great Comanche chief led his people ...

The prototypical enemies were mounted plains Indians ... a history of the Comanche Indians that reconsiders the struggle between white settlers, particularly in Texas, and the tribe he describes ...

That was in Texas ... the last day of Comanche hegemony over the Southern Plains. When Mackenzie and his troops arrived at the canyon’s edge, they spotted several large Indian encampments ...