The Comanche people existed for centuries in the Northern Rockies as an impoverished off-shoot of the Shoshone tribe. They suffered at the hands of neighboring tribes, and were driven off their homelands, relegated to a life on the outskirts.
Then, the Comanche met the horse. Within a few decades time, they would go from a down and out tribe of hunter-gatherers to possibly the finest light cavalry in the world at the time. With the newfound power of the horse, they were able to dominate the tribes that had bullied them for so long.
The Comanche soon possessed vast swaths of the Southern Plains, from present-day Kansas to Mexico. They systematically drove out and destroyed tribes like the Apache, The Carancawa, the Waco, the Caddo and the Tonkawa. They drove out the Spanish Empire and kept the expansion of the United States at bay for decades.
Join History At The OK Corral for the story of how this once downtrodden tribe became perhaps the most successful empires in the Western Hemisphere and wrought a level of violence upon their enemies that had seldom, if ever been seen before.
MUSIC
"Waltz For Zachariah" by Blue Dot Sessions
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