Comanchero

The Quahadis dealt extensively with the merchants of Santa Fe, but only through the Comanchero intermediaries.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Using the Comanchero Ortiz as a scout, he crossed the southern fork of the Red River known as the Prairie Dog Town Fork and into the region of present-day Clarendon.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

This was the Comanchero cattle lode, the source of guns and ammunition and food for the still-wild Comanche bands.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

He had apparently learned of the location of the enemy camp from a captured Comanchero whom Mackenzie had stretched out, presumably painfully, on a wagon wheel.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

In November 1864 he dispatched Colonel Carson on a punitive expedition into the most remote and historically inviolable part of the Comanche heartland, the thirty-five-hundred-foot-high country in the Texas Panhandle, distinguished by its flat, oceanic expanses of grass that were broken by jagged rock canyons, cut by ancient rivers, inhabited by the fiercest and most remote Comanche bands, and pierced only by the Comanchero traders out of New Mexico.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

A captured Comanchero named Polonio Ortiz revealed the existence of a wagon road with plenty of water and grass that ran, east to west, across the Llano Estacado and into New Mexico.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

He rode into the Comanchero town like a wild man on the run

Archive 2007-01-28 Bill Crider 2007

He rode into the Comanchero town like a wild man on the run

Happy Birthday, Phil Everly! Bill Crider 2007

"No better than a Comanchero," Billy Dollar muttered.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

"No better than a Comanchero," Billy Dollar muttered.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003