A question came in recently from a True West reader about the premise of Alan Le May’s great novel, The Searchers, the s…
Tag: Comanche
The Comanche and his Horse The acquisition of the horse in the 1600s brought immediate and sweeping changes to the Plains Indians.
The acquisition of the horse in the 1600s brought immediate and sweeping changes to the Plains Indians. For the first ti…
The Horse Returns to North America The greatest of these "Horse Indians" were the Comanche, who were as you know neighbors to the east of the Pueblo.
The end of the Pleistocene epoch, a geological period spanning roughly 2.5 million to 12,000 years ago brought about cli…
Britt Johnson One of the Old West’s greatest stories of courage, perseverance and family love was that of Britt Johnson’s quest to rescue his wife Mary and two daughters after their capture in 1864 by a war party of Comanche and Kiowa.
The drama began on October 13th, when a Kiowa and Comanche war party of several hundred swept down to where Elm Creek j…
Unforgiving Frontier Review of D. László Conhaim's Comanche Captive.
Laura Little’s escape from a Texas Sanitarium for the Curable and Incurable in a fast-paced prologue is a brilliant intr…
Lone Star Legacy An epic generational tale of Texas and the Southwest reflects on the violent border region.
Four years after Philipp Meyer’s multi-generational Texas novel, The Son, was published, and subsequently developed by t…
Burning Through Texas The only tribe to burn and kill its way to a sea inflamed the ire of the Texian Army.
To burn through Texas to the Gulf of Mexico was a vision that came to Chief Buffalo Hump that captured the imagination o…
The Unbroken Peace Treaty After Texas gained statehood, Penatekas stayed true to a treaty negotiated with German emigrants.
The young warriors of the Penateka Comanche tribe, several hundreds of them, lined up on one side of their camping groun…
Following the Trail of Quanah Parker Tracking the last chief of the Comanche Nation from Texas’s Fort Parker to Oklahoma’s Fort Sill.
This is surreal-and, no, I’m not stoned on peyote. What do you think?…
Tragedy and Triumph The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
The odyssey that led the Parker clan to the edge of the Texas frontier started far to the east, in the state of Virginia…