The Comanches

  • The Comanches: A History, 1706-1875
    The Comanches: A History, 1706-1875
    By Thomas W. Kavanagh

    The threats came together in the persons of James Wilkinson and his protege , Philip Nolan . Wilkinson was an accomplished schemer . During the Revolutionary War he was said to have been involved in the so - called Conway Cabal ...

  • The Comanches
    The Comanches
    By Judy Alter

    Briefly traces the history of the Comanches, describes their clothing, teepees, weapons, and warfare, and recounts their conflicts with white settlers

  • The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains
    The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains
    By Ernest Wallace, E. Adamson Hoebel

    5 Linton, The Study ofMan, 235; Neighbors, “The Nat'Jni or Comanches of Texas,” loc. cit., 130. 7 M. M. Kenney, “Tribal Society among Texas Indians,” The Quarterly of the Texas Historical Association, Vol. I (1897), 31.

  • The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains
    The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains
    By Ernest Wallace, E. Adamson Hoebel

    This book is the story of that tribe-the great traditions of the warfare, life, and institutions of another century which are today vivid memories among its elders. Despite their prolonged resistance, the Comanches, too, had to "come in.

  • The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains
    The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains
    By Ernest Wallace

    ... peace pipe , a special pipe used by the old men in the Smoke Lodge , and a most sacred medicine pipe for solemn religious ritual . Etiquette forbade the use of special pipes for any purpose other than that for which they were intended ...