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The Real Buffalo Hump

by | Dec 13, 2018 | True West Blog

Most are familiar with Buffalo Hump in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. He was a fictional character but there really was a Buffalo Hump. His name wasn’t really Buffalo Hump but the Texans believed his Nermernuh (Comanche name for themselves) Po-cha-na-quar-hip, meaning “an erection that won’t go down” was too vulgar for mixed company. He was a chief of the Penateka Com


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