T.R. Ferenbach: "The Comanches: The Destruction of a people."
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Don't mess with Texas. It took over sixty years, but the Texas frontier was finally pacified by the Colt revolver and the Texas Rangers under Captain Jack B. Hays. There was never a more fearsome opponent to westward expansion than the Comanche, and this book tells why. They were the best horsemen ever observed, or so thought the Prussian calverymen who encountered them. Ferenbach postulates that they were finally defeated only because of their unwillingness to take casualties. Regards, J.R.
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