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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Comanche Indians"”.
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KIT CARSON'S LAST FIGHT: THE ADOBE WALLS CAMPAIGN OF 1864
… men on a punitive campaign against the Kiowa and Comanche Indians of the high plains. The resulting battle was one of the largest in the history of North American Indian Wars. Yet this conflict has been relegated to historical obscurity. In this paper, I examine why Kit Carson's 1864 Adobe Walls …
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Architecture of the negative: Community center for Ransom Canyon, TX
… Canyon has been used since the days when the Comanche Indians would relinquish their captive prisoners back to their families for trade or money. The town as it exists today is relatively young, with its origination tracing back to the early 1960s. The site chosen for the placement of the …
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Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
… sources during the antebellum era framed the Comanche as “the most powerful” or “the most dreaded” Indian whom settlers encountered on the frontier. This research examines the pivotal role that American print culture played in constructing dubious stereotypes of Comanche Indians in American …
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Burying the War Hatchet: Spanish-Comanche Relations in Colonial Texas, 1743-1821
This dissertation provides a history of Spanish-Comanche relations during the era of Spanish Texas. The study is based on research in archival documents, some newly discovered. Chapter 1 presents an overview of events that brought both people to the land that Spaniards named Texas. The remaining …