[RobbyS]

The Comanches were a relatively small nation, a few thousand or more, but they dominated the South Plains from the Arkansas River all the way into South Texas. Their currency was horses and they raided across the Rio Grande in search of them. The Mexican government allowed Austin's colony to be established in Texas to provide a buffer between Mexican settlers and the Comanche. After Texas gained her independence, Texans engaged in war with the Comanche until the time of the civil war. To took W.T. Sherman and the US Army finally to break the back of the Comanche nation. old "Cump" himself was instrumental in the final showdown with these warriors. who made the Sioux seem like women in comparison.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

[PzLdr]

Ranald "Bad Hand" MacKenzie put the whup on 'em. Kicked the p*ss out of Kickapoos in Mexico raiding over the border from Mexico, too. He went in after them, WITHOUT the permission of the sovereign nation of Mexico, which did nothing about them. MacKenzie almost singlehandedly broke the Comanche, Kiowa and the remnants of the Southern Cheyenne on the Staked Plains. Did well up north against the Northern Cheyenne and Lakota in the fall/winter of '76-'77, too.