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For more than 150 years, mounted Comanche warriors were “the Lords of the Southern Plains,” Their ferocious raids struck terror into the hearts of other Plains tribes, Mexican villagers, and the American settlers of the frontier Texas. Comanche horsemen ranged over the vast area known as Comancheria, and they raided over an area that stretched from southern Colorado and Kansas to northern Mexico. they shared Comancheria with the Wichita, Kiowa, and Kiowa Apache and, after 1840, the southern Cheyenne and Arapaho. [1] Comanche power peaked in the 1840s when they conducted large scale raids hundreds of miles deep into Mexico while also warring against the Anglo-Americans and Hispanics in Texas. Their decline resulted from epidemics of cholera, smallpox and encroachment due to the expanding population of the United States. The Comanche Wars began in 1706 with raids by Comanche on Spanish colonies in New Mexico and continued until the last bands of Comanche surrendered to the United States in 1875 although a few Comanche warriors continued to fight in conflicts such as the Buffalo Hunters' War in 1876 and 1877.
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Comanche Wars | |||||||
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Part of Indian Wars | |||||||
A map showing the Comanche lands (Comancheria) during the 1800s. | |||||||
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Spain Mexico Republic of Texas United States | Comanche | ||||||
Texas Comanche wars 1836 – 1875 |