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The Comanche: They Stopped Spain, Broke Mexico and Fought Texas for 40 Years
Unsung Regiments

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June 1874, the Texas Panhandle. Seven hundred warriors wait in the dark outside a trading post called Adobe Walls. At their head rides a young war leader whose mother was a white captive. His name is Quanah.

For a hundred and fifty years, the Comanche were the most powerful people on the southern Great Plains. A small, poor mountain people became, on horseback, the masters of a territory larger than many European kingdoms. They stopped the advance of the Spanish Empire, raided deep into Mexico, and fought the Republic of Texas and the United States for half a century.

This is the full story: the horse, Mission San Sabá, Cuerno Verde and the peace with Anza, the Council House Fight and the Great Raid of 1840, the Texas Rangers and the Colt revolver, Cynthia Ann Parker, the slaughter of the buffalo, Adobe Walls, Palo Duro Canyon, Quanah Parker, and the Comanche code talkers who landed at Utah Beach on D-Day.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Adobe Walls, 1874

01:40 What this story is about

03:38 The People and the Horse

09:22 Lords of the Southern Plains

15:12 An Empire on Horseback

21:17 Texas

25:02 The Great Raid and the Rangers

32:02 The Woman Who Was Taken Twice

34:57 The Free Life Ends

41:34 The Prophet and Adobe Walls

45:23 Palo Duro

49:59 The Last Chief

53:02 Epilogue: the Comanche code talkers

55:32 Remember them

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