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    Comanche is a city located in Comanche County in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 4,211 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Comanche...
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  • The Comanche /kəˈmæntʃi/ or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States...
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    Comanche County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 13,594. The county seat is Comanche...
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  • of Texas in the early 19th century with a massacre of Comanche chiefs, observed by a young Buffalo Hump. The opening coda explains that The Texas Rangers...
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    through Oklahoma, Texas, and eastern New Mexico and into the Mexican state of Chihuahua in the south. For more than 150 years, the Comanche were the dominant...
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    considered for merging. › Comanche (English: /kəˈmæntʃi/, endonym Nʉmʉ Tekwapʉ̲) is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Comanche, who split from the Shoshone...
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  • second installment of the narrative. A Comanche Moon in Texas history was a full moon in autumn which permitted Comanche warriors to ride by night journeying...
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    Comanche history /kəˈmæntʃi/ – in the 18th and 19th centuries the Comanche became the dominant tribe on the southern Great Plains. The Comanche are often...
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  • until 30 years after Texas became a state of the United States, when in 1875 the last free band of Plains Indians, the Comanches led by Quahadi warrior...
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    Comancheria (redirect from Comanche Empire)
    Comanchería (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ, 'Comanche land'), also known as the Comancherian Empire was a region of New Mexico, west Texas and nearby areas...
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    interrupted, peace between the Comanche and the Spanish in Texas. Since their first contacts with the Spanish in 1706, the Comanches had raided the colonies...
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    Cynthia Ann Parker (category Articles containing Comanche-language text)
    by Texas Rangers, aged approximately 33, and unwillingly forced to separate from her sons and conform to European-American society. Her Comanche name...
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    and cattle. The Comanche launched their raids from Texas, usually in autumn. In Texas, a full moon in September was known as a "Comanche Moon" as the mounted...
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    Quanah Parker (category Articles containing Comanche-language text)
    Parker (Comanche: Kwana, lit. 'smell, odor'; c. 1845 – February 23, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation. He...
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    Comanche Springs was an aquifer of six artesian springs geographically located between the Edwards Plateau and the Trans-Pecos regions of West Texas. The...
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  • Look up Comanche or comanche in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Comanche are a Native American ethnic group. Comanche or Commanche may also refer...
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    Great Raid of 1840 (category Battles involving the Comanche)
    Council House Fight, in which Republic of Texas officials attempted to capture and take prisoner 33 Comanche chiefs and their wives, who had earlier promised...
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  • rarely honored. The Comanche tribe was one of the main sources of native resistance in the region that became Oklahoma and Texas, and often came into...
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  • Yellow Wolf (Comanche Isa-viah, spelled also “Sa-viah” and sometimes misspelled as “Sabaheit”, “Little Wolf”), Spirit Talker (Comanche Mukwooru)'s nephew...
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  • Rachel Plummer (category Comanche)
    and the cousin of Quanah Parker, last free-roaming chief of the Comanches. An Anglo-Texan woman, she was kidnapped at the age of seventeen, along with her...
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  • Comanche County is the name of three counties in the United States: Comanche County, Kansas Comanche County, Oklahoma Comanche County, Texas This disambiguation...
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    war for the Republic of Texas. Somervell County is included in the Granbury micropolitan area. The county contains the Comanche Peak Nuclear Generating...
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  • Buffalo Hump (category Battles involving the Comanche)
    Buffalo Hump (Comanche Potsʉnakwahipʉ "Erection That Won't Go Down" euphemized to "Buffalo Bull's Back" ) (born c. 1800 — died post 1861 / ante 1867) was...
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    of spring water in Texas. The fort was named for Robert F. Stockton. Comanche Springs was a favorite rest stop on the Great Comanche Trail to Chihuahua...
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    The Meusebach–Comanche Treaty was a treaty made on May 9, 1847 between the private citizens of the Fisher–Miller Land Grant in Texas (United States), who...
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    The Piper PA-24 Comanche is an American single-engine, low-wing, all-metal monoplane of semimonocoque construction with tricycle retractable landing gear...
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    (51 km) southeast to Gatesville and 33 miles (53 km) northwest to Comanche. Texas State Highway 22 leads northeast from Hamilton 33 miles (53 km) to...
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    Peta Nocona (category Comanche people)
    of the Comanche. Peta Nocona chose his wife from among the members of the Nokoni band. He led his tribe during the extensive Indian Wars in Texas, from...
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  • Battle of Plum Creek (category Battles involving the Comanche)
    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...
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    he gained a good fame as a war leader against the Comanche's Indian enemies and a raider through Texas. In 1861, along with the Yamparika head chief Ten...
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