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The Comanche then set a grass fire to use it as a smoke screen. At mid-afternoon, a retreat was ordered, and the hunters set out towards Buffalo Springs. The natives trailed them briefly before breaking off. The Texans used a bonfire as a decoy before pulling out altogether during the night; they set fires behind them to obscure their tracks ...
In May 1877, a group of buffalo hunters led by James Harvey, a Civil War veteran and long-time buffalo hunter, were looking for a buffalo herd. After a series of Comanche raids led by Red Young Man, where much stock was taken and a few hunters killed, the hunters started looking on the Llano Estacado region of north-west Texas and eastern New Mexico for revenge against the Comanche who had ...
HOUSTON (Reuters) -One man was killed and two others were injured at an oilfield in Texas on Monday where ProPetro Services was conducting fracking operations at a well site owned by Permian ...
Comanche is a city located in Comanche County in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 4,211 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is the county seat of Comanche County.
Seven people were killed and at least 100 were injured near a mobile home park and a gas station. The Denton Fire Department also sent rescue crews to Lake Ray Roberts.
Nov. 9—COMANCHE — The City of Comanche will see a full board after the appointment of a new council member to Ward Four this week. Comanche Mayor Dennis Dobbins appointed Teresa Cabello to the ...
Little is known of Buffalo Hump's early life: education in his youth and training as a warrior, together with his cousin Yellow Wolf (Isaviah, spelled also Sa-viah and sometimes misspelled as Sabaheit, alias Small Wolf), went on under their uncle Mukwooru's ("Spirit Talker") influence and their cursus honorum (i.e., rising through the ranks) was in its full development during the Mexican ...
The Battle of Plum Creek was a clash between allied Tonkawa, militia, and Rangers of the Republic of Texas and a huge Comanche war party under Chief Buffalo Hump, which took place near Lockhart, Texas, on August 12, 1840, following the Great Raid of 1840 as that Comanche war party then returned to west Texas.