The Comancheria is the name commonly given to the historical homeland of the Comanche indian tribe.
The farms and settlements in the fertile land along this line were natural targets for Comanche raiding parties who would typically raid along the many rivers and creeks that flowed from west to east across this line.
This was primarily because the frontier between Anglo and Comanche land was constantly being pushed westward as land in the east was settled and thus any such definition would be a de facto concession to the Indians and a renunciation of any claim to the land by the Texas government.
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This land of Comancheria was defended and reigned over by the Comanche for many many years, any tribe who dared challenged them was quickly defeated.
Many of the herbs and cactus found in Comancheria had medicinal use, such as the prickly pear leaves would sometimes make a good bandage and was soothing to deep cuts and made the healing of the skin easier.
The area they controlled became known as Comancheria, and extended south from the Arkansas River across central Texas to the vicinity of San Antonio (including the entire Edwards Plateau west to the Pecos River), and north following the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the Arkansas.
In the absence of an agreement on this, the whites steadily encroached, and the Comanches continued to raid.
With the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Americans acquired territory that included a portion of Comancheria, but during the next twenty years, American penetration of the Great Plains focused on the fur trade of the Missouri River.
Comancheria's boundaries were marked by the Arkansas River in southern Colorado and extended to the Rio Grande in the south portion of Texas.
In the 18th century, the French and the Spanish sought Comanche friendship, but French and Spanish penetration of Comancheria was allowed with grudging permission from the Comanche.
Comancheria remained a barrier to settlement by outsiders until late in the 19th century.
Molly Harding, a Texas farm girl, caught in the conflict between her head and her heart--and in the middle of a thirty-year-old mystery.
Comancheria, which encompasses all the South Plains including one-half of Texas, is the exclusive domain of the Comanches and Kiowas--an endless sea of grass, stretching as far as the eye can see, populated by millions of buffalo, unsafe for the white man or any other Native American tribe.
Daybreak reveals the outlines of a dozen mounted Kiowas, followed by a string of spare ponies, moving steadily southward across the prairie.
In 1849, the federal government sent Captain Randolph B. Marcy to explore the vast region to the north and west of Austin to establish a route through the area.
The purpose of Marcy’s exploration was to establish a safer passage for immigrants headed to the California gold fields.
Acting on orders from General Persifor F. Smith, Lieutenant Colonel John J. Abercrombie arrived at the Clear Fork of the Brazos River with five companies of the Fifth Infantry on November 14, 1851.
He seeks ancient treasure that is guarded by a grisly half-ape, half-man at a cave's entrance at Comancheria, but the gold is secondary to his dream of securing ancient wisdom in the cave.
The Comanche, a warlike tribe that inhabits the Comancheria, are the enemy when they resist the Texans' forward move.
Because the native peoples are misunderstood, soldiers seek to displace the Cherokees along with the Comanche.
It is here that we meet the Comanche mind and viewpoint, a viewpoint completely apart from the European-Christian outlook.
Comancheria, as it was then called was mainly on the South side of the Colorado River which flows in a largely southwest direction across Texas, uniting finally with the Gulf of Mexico.
Austin, a small settlement situated in a river valley, has been chosen as the new capitol of Texas by Mirabeau B. Lamar, the new president of the republic.
They moved, attacking and taking over territory occupied by other tribes including the Crow, the Cherokee, the Creek, the Choctaw, and the Apache.
The area they controlled became known as "Comancheria".
It is believed the Comanche were the first people of the Plains to use horses in their travels and conquests; they even supplied Americans with horses to reach California during the Gold Rush of 1849.
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The Comanche would dominated the Southern Plains and play a prominent role in Texas frontier history throughout much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A vast area of the South Plains, including much of North, Central, and West Texas, soon became Comanche country, or Comancheria.
Only after their arrival on the Southern Plains did the tribe come to be known as Comanches, a name derived from the Ute word Komantcia, meaning enemy, or, literally, anyone who wants to fight me all the time.
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