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- noun Plural form of
Comanchero .
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Examples
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Instead of terror there was simply trade, conducted by an entirely new breed, hard-bitten mestizo middlemen who went by the name of Comancheros.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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They would not even trade with them, as a general principle, preferring the Mexican traders from Santa Fe, known as Comancheros.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance or his previous The Searchers, both directed by John Ford, but The Comancheros is a good genre movie that will please western fans.
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Mexican buffalo-hunters, and "Comancheros," or Indian traders.
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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The featured movie here the week before was The Comancheros starring John Wayne and they were in the mood for another western.
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The featured movie here the week before was The Comancheros starring John Wayne and they were in the mood for another western.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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They stole cattle from Texas—Charles Goodnight put the number rustled during the Civil War years at an astonishing 300,000 head—and traded them through Comancheros to government contractors in New Mexico, who sold them to the U.S. Army.1 General Carleton, to be precise.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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There were no Anglo settlements to the west, no towns, no houses, no permanent structures of any kind save for the grass huts of the Wichitas or the makeshift shacks of Comancheros and other Indian traders.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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American accounts often described Comancheros as “renegades” or “half-breeds,”5 the latter referring to what was supposed to be Comanche blood.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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So fearful was Peta Nocona that his white wife would be taken from him that when Comancheros or other traders passed through his camp he often blackened her face with ashes and made her hide away.7 This partly explains the dearth of Cynthia Ann sightings over the years.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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