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Comanches: The History of a People · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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I've been going on this deep dive for weeks, but I'm four books into
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now, just reading about the effectively the Indian Wars whatever we want to we
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want to call them, and the role of the Comanche specifically in places like
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Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and the way that they conducted themselves and
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you know, are the way that we're taught history is we came in,
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we took land, we broke treaties were bad. The reality is that the
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Commanche were engaged in rape, torture, brutalization, murder, and constant depredation,
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constant predatory action against settlers in Texas, first against the Spanish and Mexican
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settlers, but then the settlers in Texas, until eventually the people of Texas
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and God blessed them, were like, yeah, no, Texas Rangers,
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let's mount up, We're going to end this. And I'm not saying that
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everything they did was, you know, within what we would want in the
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Geneva Conventions. But they got sick of their women being kidnapped, raped and
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mutilated. They got sick of their men being murdered, their babies being murdered
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in the crib because the Indians didn't want to take them captive because they had
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no value. They got sick of one hundred and fifty years of that and
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decided that it was go time. Sometimes people just decide that enough is enough.