Texas Rangers vs. Comanche Raiders : The Battle of Antelope Hills

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  • Опубликовано: 8 фев 2023
  • A legendary Texas Ranger is called out of retirement to hunt down a band of Comanche warriors led by an equally legendary chief clad in Old Spanish armor. Don't miss one of the most bizarre scenes in Old West history on this episode of ‪@historyattheokcorral‬
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  • @5h0rgunn45
    @5h0rgunn45 Год назад +395

    Wearing a steel breastplate to battle on the Prairie in the 19th century is real boss move.

    • @historyattheokcorral
      @historyattheokcorral  Год назад +22

      💯

    • @deadhorse1391
      @deadhorse1391 Год назад +7

      If I remember right there was a character in the book Centennial that used a similar breast plate

    • @Have_A_Nice_Day242
      @Have_A_Nice_Day242 Год назад +28

      All Summer on the prairie wearing the Spanish Breast Plate would leave some bad tan lines.

    • @noconiironjacket5415
      @noconiironjacket5415 Год назад +1

      Wish I owned it ..

    • @Defender78
      @Defender78 Год назад +25

      in the 1850s, a conquistador-breastplate would have been 200-300 years old, its amazing to believe that a piece of armor was in the Indians' possession, handed down through generations, and kept servicable for all that time. There's hardly any record of Native Americans holding onto outsider's items for so long, as far as i know

  • @taylorharbin3948
    @taylorharbin3948 10 месяцев назад +40

    Cormac McCarthy wrote a brilliant scene in Blood Meridian where the protagonist’s party is attacked by a large Comanche force. It’s quite chilling to read.

    • @seanheffle5637
      @seanheffle5637 9 месяцев назад +8

      A legion of horribles

    • @mico1664
      @mico1664 6 месяцев назад +3

      The Judge didn't seem to mind

    • @falcor200
      @falcor200 5 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@mico1664the Judge was death and chaos, he didn't mind anything other than peace.

    • @HellAintHalfFull
      @HellAintHalfFull 3 месяца назад

      @@mico1664 The Judge wasn't there during the Comanche attack.

    • @wiwysova
      @wiwysova 2 месяца назад

      Death hilarious

  • @RICKRATT1
    @RICKRATT1 Год назад +73

    My family( Powers and Manning) were settlers in Hamilton county Tx. and witnessed the Comanche raids first hand in 1867. They survived and relocated to Arkansas. One of my grade school friends was the great grandson of Quannah Parker, apparently one of many descendants he propagated.

    • @historyattheokcorral
      @historyattheokcorral  Год назад +8

      We have family in Comanche! Very familiar with Hamilton County.

    • @goranmracevic4897
      @goranmracevic4897 10 месяцев назад

      Vratićete zemlju INDIJANSKIM NARODIMA MILOM ILI SILOM, KAD TAD , A AMERANGLI KOLONIJALNI GENOCIDNI MONSTRUMI ĆE U OKEAN !!!

    • @nicholsjon9472
      @nicholsjon9472 3 месяца назад

      My mom's maiden name is Powers. They are also from the same area and have been for generations. I wonder if we're related.

    • @RICKRATT1
      @RICKRATT1 3 месяца назад

      My Powers relatives were originally from St. Mary's, Md., then later Kentucky and Perryville, Mo.@@nicholsjon9472

    • @DriveLaken
      @DriveLaken Месяц назад

      @@nicholsjon9472 you all likely have a Comanche blood relative out there somewhere
      We are part Creek. A Very white family, but 1/16th Creek. It happened both ways back then.

  • @pantagruel1066
    @pantagruel1066 Год назад +91

    Using the footage from Hostiles was a great touch. That opening scene really captures the brutality of the “low intensity” conflict. Very few pitched battles, lots of vicious raids. On both sides.

    • @thejohnbeck
      @thejohnbeck Год назад +8

      Yeah. Low intensity is a weird choice of words. Maybe small war would be a better way to describe it.

    • @cjm7685
      @cjm7685 Год назад +4

      ​@@bigjerm1631lmao so true. Looks like we are reverting backwards anyhow.

    • @uncletiggermclaren7592
      @uncletiggermclaren7592 Год назад

      You make it sound like a fair fight. In fact only ONE people were being dispossessed, only ONE people were in their actual homeland. And regardless of the claims, most raids were not done with the intent of exterminating all white people.

    • @charlesciminera5881
      @charlesciminera5881 Год назад +4

      Of course there were very few pitched battles someone could get hurt its much safer to raid the weak and unsuspecting

    • @wiwysova
      @wiwysova 2 месяца назад

      That is literally the only good scene from that movie lmao

  • @assphann
    @assphann Год назад +228

    I live in Texas but only about 30 mins from antelope hills and i have explored all over that area. Ive been waiting for someone to make a video about this battle for some time. This was very well done. Your story telling ability is extraordinary. A+.
    1 side note you mention the rangers were formed in 1835. They were form in 1823 because all year this year they are celebrating their 200th anniversary.

    • @historyattheokcorral
      @historyattheokcorral  Год назад +66

      Thats a great observation. Stephen Austin's ranging companies, the predecessors of the Rangers, started in 1823. The official state organization didnt come until 1835, but we debated which date to use in this episode! We will do an episode on Austin's ranger companies soon. Thank you for watching!

    • @aa-gr2jh
      @aa-gr2jh Год назад

      I hope you are enjoying the southern invasion. Payback is a dish best served cold. 😈 This is just the beginning. Wait until China and Russia start flooding in weapons. 😅😅

    • @wolfthequarrelsome504
      @wolfthequarrelsome504 Год назад

      Ah, yes, Texas Rangers used to terrorize, burn, rape and murder innocent Mexicans after the great Texas "revolution".

    • @michaelpacnw2419
      @michaelpacnw2419 Год назад +16

      @@Hyoscyamus369 The Rangers simply interrupted the Comanche from genociding the rest of the tribes (and the Mexicans). Comanche were not "nice guys"

    • @deputyjack1
      @deputyjack1 Год назад +5

      ​@@michaelpacnw2419 thank you for making that point in response to the other dude's tripe.

  • @delgraven3624
    @delgraven3624 Год назад +20

    I say YES to all of your questions. We cannot judge the combatants of either side by 20th and 21st century standards.

    • @wisconsinfarmer4742
      @wisconsinfarmer4742 Год назад +2

      As Billy Joel says, "Who is wrong and who is right does not matter in the thick of the fight"

    • @user-nv5pj3sp7s
      @user-nv5pj3sp7s 4 дня назад

      @@wisconsinfarmer4742 The Native Americans fighting to keep the land of their ancestors were doing what anyone would do to protect their family and defend the right to live free on the land that they inherited.

    • @wisconsinfarmer4742
      @wisconsinfarmer4742 4 дня назад

      @@user-nv5pj3sp7s .... the land they brutally seized from other indigenous societies.

  • @ArmenianBishop
    @ArmenianBishop Год назад +41

    John RIP Ford (1815-1897) was stationed at Fort Brown, TX, during the American Civil War. He was Colonel of the 2nd Texas Cavalry. He commanded Confederate forces in the last Civil War land battle, the Battle of Palmetto Ranch (May 12th & 13th, 1865), some 34 days after Lee surrendered.

    • @pantagruel1066
      @pantagruel1066 Год назад +1

      Solid bro. Much respect.

    • @kennkid9912
      @kennkid9912 Год назад +1

      I thought that was him. RIP Ford. Rest in Peace. Two Walker Colts!

    • @adamkhan4451
      @adamkhan4451 Год назад +1

      Commanded the confederates? So he lost?

    • @ArmenianBishop
      @ArmenianBishop Год назад +5

      @@adamkhan4451 Palmetto Ranch was what can be described as an empty & useless Confederate Victory. The two sides were on the cusp of a surrender agreement, when it happened. I'm from California, my only ancestral connection to that war is from Minnesota.

    • @ArmenianBishop
      @ArmenianBishop Год назад

      @@pantagruel1066 Thanks so very much!

  • @sunzeneise
    @sunzeneise Год назад +30

    Truly an outstanding presentation cogent, well composed script, and very well presented. Good Work, Sir! Keep-on keepin’-on.

  • @michaelleblanc7283
    @michaelleblanc7283 Год назад +20

    'History at the OK Coral' is a great 'free ticket' to 'Time Traveling'. The only pity is that certificates of 'higher education' are not awarded for being a fan who has followed/binged on it since discovering the channel. Otherwise, all is the same. It's been a great education

    • @historyattheokcorral
      @historyattheokcorral  Год назад +4

      Certificates are for losers. 🤷🏼‍♂️💪🏻

    • @michaelleblanc7283
      @michaelleblanc7283 Год назад +4

      @@historyattheokcorral Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
      - Mark Twain's Notebook, 1898

  • @ianfleischhacker6154
    @ianfleischhacker6154 Год назад +43

    Your storytelling, afaic, is both educational and entertaining. Your inclusion of details to build suspense is appreciated.

  • @leadminer1
    @leadminer1 Год назад +9

    The hands and feet were eaten by the Tonkawas. When asked, the chiefs said of all nationalities, he liked the Dutch the most.

  • @icewaterslim7260
    @icewaterslim7260 Год назад +34

    Reason the Tonkawa had stripped Comanche flesh from what stragglers they caught was that they practiced cannibalism.And I believe Cynthia Parker had recieved a visit by her relatives in the presence of Nakoma during some horse trading sometime before this event and had refused an offer to try and escape back with them and Nacoma wasn't doing any trading for her. They said she was pretty standoffish by then.. They wrote about that somewhere that escapes my memory now.
    Her Brother was young enough to be assimilated into the Quahadi which the Comanche were known to do. On the way back from a raid in Mexico he took ill with smallpox and was left there with a captive girl. Having better resistance to smallpox than the natives he survived and I'm not sure what happened after with him although I believe they stayed together. I've heard about that a couple places, one being somewhere on RUclips. Maybe a poster named "Unworthy History" that references old accounts or possibly You?
    When you get as old as I'm getting sometimes the lights are on but nobodies home, lol. .

    • @robertledford499
      @robertledford499 Год назад +2

      Try "Empire of the Summer Moon".

    • @robertledford499
      @robertledford499 Год назад +1

      "Empire....." The best, most honest book about the Indians and white man I've ever read. I got "Lance and Shield" recommended to me. Have it and plan to read it soon. A good book that is a comparison of two lives is "Custer and Crazy Horse" if you haven't read it.

    • @icewaterslim7260
      @icewaterslim7260 Год назад

      @@robertledford499 Sam Gwynne's account is not just short on research but selective and I can only surmise the author is too lazy. When you have a point of history that's contested it pays to do the comprehensive research. Because when it comes to history contested someone is going to dig until they find out which side has the evidence on it's side and whose sources don't stand up to scrutiny.
      .
      ruclips.net/video/0NaI2chrN4A/видео.html
      .
      ruclips.net/video/lr_fTDtN8IE/видео.html

    • @remondbernasconi3722
      @remondbernasconi3722 Год назад

      Mutilation is as close to cannibalism as you can get regardless of the race. Don't 🐐 yourself!

  • @boc234
    @boc234 Год назад +8

    Repeating rifles were curios in 1858. What is probably meant is breechloading rifles, probably Sharps.

  • @artisaprimus6306
    @artisaprimus6306 Год назад +12

    What a family tree. Quannah Parker, son of Peta Nacona, son of Iron Jacket. Comanche royalty.

    • @historyattheokcorral
      @historyattheokcorral  Год назад +7

      On the other side, the Parkers are legendary Tx settler family. He was really a combination of worlds.

    • @robblume3082
      @robblume3082 Год назад +2

      If I recall, Cynthia Ann Parker was a young girl when captured. She was years later "liberated" by Rangers including Charles Goodnight. Story is she longed to return to the Comanche life and did not life long. As others noted, she was the mother of Quanah Parker.

    • @artisaprimus6306
      @artisaprimus6306 Год назад

      @@robblume3082 Yes, she was and I've heard that as well. She was basically treated as an outcast by her own people. Racial hatred was out in the open in those days.

  • @durbanbudz
    @durbanbudz Год назад +6

    I enjoyed your retelling of this raw slice of Old West history, thank you.

  • @tomz3214
    @tomz3214 Год назад +10

    I just happened upon your channel. I thoroughly enjoy the presentation as it's told in a way that brings these people to life. I find the artwork fascinating. Thank you for your efforts.

  • @swhedge71
    @swhedge71 Год назад +10

    Thoroughly enjoyed this and your other videos, you have an uncanny ability to encapsulate your audience into the moment. I commend you on your diligent research and presentation of what you provide to your viewers! Outstanding! Subbed for more content! Cheers from Texas!

  • @loadmaster7
    @loadmaster7 Год назад +20

    How am I discovering your channel only now?! You have a treasure trove of awesome videos about some really interesting and little known (for me at least) historic events! Looking forward to binge-watching!

  • @davidyendoll5903
    @davidyendoll5903 Год назад +34

    Thanks for this video . After enjoying all the cowboy and cavalry stories all my days ...and I am over sixty and a Brit interested in all human history ... you tell me about and map a country I had never heard of in America , Comancheria . What a large area it was too . I approve of your honest history telling . Subscribed to hear more about real US history as a result . All the Best .

    • @historyattheokcorral
      @historyattheokcorral  Год назад

      Many thanks!!

    • @jameshickok2349
      @jameshickok2349 Год назад +2

      The horse was a game changer for the Plains Indians. Could say that's an understatement. On foot their ability to spread mayhem and harass neighboring tribes was quite limited.

    • @jimmyjames7174
      @jimmyjames7174 Год назад +5

      @@jameshickok2349 The Comanches were just considered one of many lowly tribes that lived off what they could find while wandering around the plains area. Then they captured wild horses that escaped from the Spanish Conquistador's expeditions and the rest is history. The greatest horsemen and warriors ever known in the western world came into existence. I have great respect for the Comanches but they were blood thirsty, merciless, and fierce.

    • @tonyjackson-cb1wl
      @tonyjackson-cb1wl Год назад

      You mean turtle 🐢 island

  • @genesishandboards
    @genesishandboards 11 месяцев назад +16

    Wow very well told! I was glued to your clear informative description of this battle and the events that lead up to it. Im suprised there were only 2 casualties considering as you said earlier battles they would loose 50% of the force. Since this was a suprise attack im sure that played a massive role in the outcome. Ill be checking out a ton of your content! Way better than the discovery channel or any of the history channels videos!

  • @SSHitMan
    @SSHitMan Год назад +12

    Really the Commanche created the rules, and to win you have to play by them.

    • @kenneth9874
      @kenneth9874 Год назад +4

      The same rules of hit and run just more mobile due to the horse and location

  • @raylocke282
    @raylocke282 Год назад +4

    The repeating rifle and theColt revolver changed the equation on the plains.

  • @CuttySobz
    @CuttySobz Год назад

    Fascinating content I'm addicted to this channel. Just discovered it a couple days ago and subscribed. Please keep the awesome content coming : )

  • @FuzzyWuzzy75
    @FuzzyWuzzy75 Год назад

    I can offer little about the history prior to and after the events mentioned here as I know to little.
    All I can say is this was an excellent and very informative clip. Thank you for the post... very interesting!

  • @dubyacwh7978
    @dubyacwh7978 Год назад +8

    They were all correct for their time the Comanche, became the masters of the Prairie, after the horse was introduced to the Great Plains The Comanche were the most feared cavalry west of the Mississippi and south of the Arkansas river
    The only way they could be defeated was to attack them when they were most vulnerable during the winter months a tactic used most successfully by the US cavalry led by George Armstrong, Custer and Raynald McKenzie, but it was a long, hard battle and many years before the Comanche were all on Indian reservations in Oklahoma

    • @markgray6982
      @markgray6982 Год назад

      The Comanche ruled the biggest area ever by a Tribe, and they held it for 150 years. The Comanche rivaled the Spanish conquistadors in Power and Wealth. The Comanche were big slave traders and profit seekers, Texas,,,Oklahoma,Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico were part of Comanche land

    • @katharinavonhohenlohr9160
      @katharinavonhohenlohr9160 Год назад

      "Attacking the people in the winter...when they are most vulneralble....you named also Custer...the massmurderer... areyou proud of the killing of Comanche's or any other tribe?? You are all massmurderers! Shame on you! You live in a stolen country, on stolen land...you live in an ocean of blood and guild and god will jugde you for this!

  • @blank557
    @blank557 Год назад +4

    Captivating presentation. At me at the proverbial edge of my seat. Look forward to seeing more.

  • @johnjohnon8767
    @johnjohnon8767 Год назад +12

    That was a different time in history. A clash of cultures with little pity. Men have always fought for what they believed in . To judge one group worse then another isnt quite fair in todays views. If someone attacks you, you'll probably fight back. Someone does you wrong you get pissed. And may retaliate.

  • @clivethomas4920
    @clivethomas4920 Год назад +4

    Another awesome presentation. Keep up the good work.

  • @tn-titan6159
    @tn-titan6159 Год назад +9

    Great story, and so well told. Crazy they only lost 2 men (Only part I hated) and both sides were dueling against each other.Amazing!

  • @johndilday1846
    @johndilday1846 Год назад

    I just found your channel and subscribed so I can learn as much as possible about Texas and the frontier days.

  • @thomasgumersell9607
    @thomasgumersell9607 Год назад +19

    A well done video on the struggles of Native American Comanche vs the Texas Rangers and their Allies. One could almost picture this battle taking place. With your ability to describe it in your video. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

    • @TheBelrick
      @TheBelrick Год назад

      so , babies were Native United States of American allies against the Siberian American Comanches? Such a struggle.

  • @ryukshinigami13
    @ryukshinigami13 Год назад +3

    Plains warfare is the epitome of the old adage; "Hurt people, hurt people".

  • @keithwinters3031
    @keithwinters3031 Год назад

    Great. Thanks. Love the history of the West. Great narration and pics.

  • @alwaysfourfun1671
    @alwaysfourfun1671 Год назад +3

    Hundreds of years of fighting. This is an episode, I had not heard details of. Brave men on both sides. I digress on opinions. Thanks!

  • @kebler414
    @kebler414 Год назад +3

    I’ve worked right next to Antelope Hills. Great to see this story

  • @dmozonnersepicoutdooradven3524
    @dmozonnersepicoutdooradven3524 Год назад +1

    Outstanding work, Sir. I lived in Beaumont for a year after ETS'ing out of the Corps. San Antone is my favorite. Especially in December.

  • @paulbarrett3361
    @paulbarrett3361 Год назад +45

    I loved this and has added another piece of information to our family story. My grandma Barrett's great aunt was Cynthanne Parker, Peta Naconah was her husband.

    • @reidellis1988
      @reidellis1988 Год назад +1

      Very Cool.

    • @kam16441
      @kam16441 Год назад +2

      Quanah is my 3rd gret grandfather. Peta nocona my 4th and iron jacket my 5th

    • @reidellis1988
      @reidellis1988 Год назад

      @@kam16441 Also very cool. A'Ho from Utah!

    • @paulbarrett3361
      @paulbarrett3361 Год назад +2

      No kidding, well hello. Cynthia Anne was my grand mothers great great aunt. My grand mothers grandpa was a Texas Ranger and they moved to Oregon and my great grandmother was born on the trail, funny thing is she died in 68 and i remember her so much.

    • @wddude2984
      @wddude2984 Год назад

      @@paulbarrett3361 Truly fascinating.
      We were never taught the real history in school.
      Some Indians were brutal as a rule.
      They would cut women's noses off if they did not willingly submit to rape.
      I'm sick that so few know how much Indians helped and hindered the expansion to the west.
      If we are guilty of atrocities, I suppose many individual natives were worse.
      All Truth is Ugly

  • @isaiahsalazar2431
    @isaiahsalazar2431 Год назад +17

    Great, thanks for making longer episodes

  • @craigwin3685
    @craigwin3685 Год назад +2

    You are an outstanding storyteller. I may be listening all day.

  • @las347
    @las347 Год назад +35

    The book Empire of the Summer Moon is amazing read on this time period. Interesting fact the turning point of defeating the Indians was the invention of the Colt revolver. The ability to fire 6 shots quickly was a more superior weapon against the skilled Indian fighters with a bow.

    • @christopping5876
      @christopping5876 Год назад +1

      Totally agree. Read the book last year. Fascinating read.

    • @ragnarrklangsrok1685
      @ragnarrklangsrok1685 Год назад +1

      Thank G-d for the Texas Navy

    • @charlesciminera5881
      @charlesciminera5881 Год назад +1

      @@ragnarrklangsrok1685 huh from who's point of view ? Comanches were there first

    • @adampeters9861
      @adampeters9861 Год назад +17

      @@charlesciminera5881 The Comanches took that land from other tribes so what was wrong with taking it from them?

    • @charlesciminera5881
      @charlesciminera5881 Год назад

      It's always wrong to take land from others but I get your logic it's just man's inhumanity towards man and after all these years it's still happening

  • @getoffenit7827
    @getoffenit7827 6 месяцев назад

    Many of these events and people covered here on your channel..i used to have to go to a library to try and find books about...i did find many books of varying degrees of fact&fiction over the years.
    But there was never enough time in a day a week or a year to really dig deep for something that wasnt about only the little bighorn battle,Billy the Kid,
    I would as a kid in the 70s and 80s bury myself in books...at some point i realized there is just no way i can cover it all.
    So thank you for doing the hard parts about bringing some deeper history about the west
    I can listen here and learn a bit more background on events and especially those Native Americans with those odd but amazing names...Iron Shirt,Wooden Leg,Buffalo Hump,and a whole range of names..how did they get those names? I can sit here and drink coffee in my garage and catch up on stories i never had time to look into for myself Bravo-Zulu!

  • @Chris-um3se
    @Chris-um3se 10 месяцев назад

    Narration and the Script are beyond BRILLIANT ---Bravo

  • @60474
    @60474 2 месяца назад

    Great presentation. I grew up 9 miles from where Quanah Parker was supposedly born. While in the Boy Scouts I trekked everywhere out there looking for arrowheads. Our schools in this country are doing a disservice to these kids by not teaching them about all our history. Videos like this are a great conduit to the past. Thank you!!

  • @andrewmaccallum2367
    @andrewmaccallum2367 Год назад +1

    Yet another excellent video 👏👏👏

  • @danielbourke306
    @danielbourke306 Год назад +5

    Really appreciate you, what you do and how you do it bud 😇💯💯

  • @albertstandish1439
    @albertstandish1439 Год назад

    I live in South Texas along the Atascosa river where I have found Comanche and Spanish artifacts and other items but I love Texas history.Thank you for the video.

    • @Detraf-ohw
      @Detraf-ohw 11 месяцев назад

      What all types of artifacts have you found from both Spanish & Comanche? I’m sincerely just curious, being a avid “head hunter” myself. But I live in N. Alabama & mostly only ever hunt locally.

  • @billybeads3328
    @billybeads3328 11 месяцев назад

    That was really well narrated and enjoyable to watch,i am a new fan

  • @sunzeneise
    @sunzeneise Год назад +1

    This series is very well written, and produced. Great narrator.

  • @evanwarrenchuk4003
    @evanwarrenchuk4003 Год назад

    Just found your channel. New one to listen at work. Thanks.👍

  • @gablewhite4673
    @gablewhite4673 Год назад +2

    Another brilliant installment…enjoying the channel immensely…the stories, atmosphere, imagery, art, and old photographs…and curious to know who the music is by? Thanks!

  • @777poco
    @777poco Год назад

    Very good story, your voice is perfect for story telling, subscribed

  • @jeremywatson4860
    @jeremywatson4860 Год назад +8

    The armor pictured isn't the type he wore. He had chainmail. We know this because after he was killed at little robe creek I'm 1858, the tonkawa cannibalized him, the rangers sent his spear and headdress to the governor in Austin and the rangers broke apart his chainmail and each of them kept a piece.

    • @ChiIeboy
      @ChiIeboy Год назад

      Yeah, there's definitely a few mistakes in this production, like the photo of Pet Nocona, which is actually a photo Quanah Parker (on horseback).

    • @Sutorenja
      @Sutorenja Год назад +2

      it is actually stranger that he had chainmail than a cuirass. really makes you wonder what that shirt's story is...

    • @jeremywatson4860
      @jeremywatson4860 Год назад +2

      @@Sutorenja it was supposedly "passed down from his ancestors". I'm guessing someone took it from a Spaniard who was killed exploring Texas. They had already been coming since the early 1500s. I don't think the Comanche migrated to Texas until the late 1600s tho. My dates may be a little off

  • @williamespinosa9094
    @williamespinosa9094 Месяц назад +1

    Excellent job 👏

  • @guytaylor3727
    @guytaylor3727 Год назад +1

    Great documentary, amazingly presented. You got a new sub. Can anyone tell me where the scenes were from, asides from, Dances With Wolves, Hostiles and Lonesome Dove?
    Ford was a tactician for sure, glory seeker is a description best kept for the likes of Custer!

  • @michaellincoln3739
    @michaellincoln3739 10 месяцев назад +2

    Brilliant and respectful storytelling. I like the way you are able to pin-point the good and bad aspects of human nature. Would love to see more on the good and bad individuals in the old west including both Indians and Whites. Ultimately the real heros are the ones who show mercy in war on both sides.

  • @brianaimar3124
    @brianaimar3124 Год назад

    very good vid man

  • @shep8851
    @shep8851 4 месяца назад +1

    The scouts need recognition as very brave men

  • @colvinator1611
    @colvinator1611 Год назад

    A great piece of American history. Thanks a lot for the video. Colin UK 🇬🇧

  • @harrywoods9987
    @harrywoods9987 Год назад +5

    love your channel !! you mentioned early in this video that the native forces with the rangers were armed with repeating rifles. with the henry and the yellowboy still a few years in the future what are these rifles that you speak of being present in 1858 ? please keep up thig great work !!

    • @psychiatry-is-eugenics
      @psychiatry-is-eugenics Год назад

      Found a blog by Tom Correa , the American cowboy chronicles .
      The antelope hills expedition of 1858 (2013)
      that addresses your question .

    • @ChiIeboy
      @ChiIeboy Год назад

      @@psychiatry-is-eugenics Link please?

  • @thewanderingisraelite
    @thewanderingisraelite Год назад

    This was very good presentation. There are several books about the Parker family up into the early 1910's..!! Q Parker died a very rich man..!!

  • @arkangelnorthman
    @arkangelnorthman Год назад

    BRAVO!! Well done. This gives a glimpse into the nuance of history. As facts are presented, one sided arguments tend to fall away....to the dismay of some, i might add.

  • @Ripper7620
    @Ripper7620 Год назад +3

    Awesome, thank you!

  • @talesfromanoldmanpatoneal6372
    @talesfromanoldmanpatoneal6372 Год назад +1

    Really enjoyed this mini documentary. It was very informative and entertaining. Love history, this way great.

  • @YogiMcCaw
    @YogiMcCaw 3 месяца назад

    Another excellent historical exploration! Happy to have stumbled upon your content on youtube. I have also watched some of your Dates and Dead Guys channel.
    To answer some of your questions for viewers at the end, all I have to say is that oftentimes in war, it's hard to find the good guys. Both sides have their causes, deeply held beliefs, and their very families to fight for. Atrocities abound, with totally innocent noncombatants all too often becoming the targets of savage brutality and violence.
    Regarding the Comanches, I can't help but compare them to the Mongols, who conquered and devastated vast swaths of central Asia after their tribes domesticated the horse, using many of the same battle techniques and living in transportable yurts, which , let's face it, are tipis with additional wood framing
    Everybody loves horses, but horses have also become one of history's deadliest weapons of war.
    But anyway, keep up the high-quality work. I sincerely hope you get backers with bigger budgets, so that you can do re-enactments and compete with the likes of PBS and NatGeo. Your content is certainly worth it.

  • @Music-lx1tf
    @Music-lx1tf Год назад

    Another great story from real history. Thank you.

  • @tn-titan6159
    @tn-titan6159 Год назад +1

    I love the channel! Wish you would do a video on the Lincoln County War in New Mexico

  • @jimmorris5829
    @jimmorris5829 Год назад +2

    The Tonka Indians were somewhat feared by the Comanche because the Tonka were cannibals and the Comanche didn't relish arriving in the next life with a chunk missing from their backside after a Tonka barbecue.

  • @Charlie.a
    @Charlie.a Год назад +2

    Thank you

  • @mitchellculberson9336
    @mitchellculberson9336 Год назад +6

    Anything goes when it came to Native warfare.The mutilation of an enemy dead was commonplace .The warrior that done the mutilating didn't want to have to fight the same warrior again in the Happy Hunting Grounds that's why the mutilation. Ford di what he could with what he had & came off pretty well.

    • @martynb901
      @martynb901 Год назад

      But that doesn’t explain why they enjoyed torturing their captives in gruesomely creative ways before finally killing them.

  • @MJRamirezVideo
    @MJRamirezVideo 8 месяцев назад

    Great story telling

  • @lowelldejong9248
    @lowelldejong9248 Год назад

    Good report

  • @ertman591
    @ertman591 Год назад

    Great video, Thank you

  • @marine763
    @marine763 Год назад +1

    I live in Wichita Falls, Texas, which is 21 miles from the Red River. All along the Red River, there were what was called the Red River Indian Wars .About 18 miles from my home and only one mile from Highway 240 was an old calvary wooden fort that had the 10 Calvary stationed there .The 10 Calvary was a Buffalo Soldiers fort .The fort was attacked, and everyone in the fort was killed, including all of the horses. Some settlers happened upon the battle site . A mass grave was dug for all the dead soldiers, including the calvary horses . There are two Indian reservations not far from me along the Red River and they are the Comanche and Kiowa tribes .

    • @wddude2984
      @wddude2984 Год назад

      I've been listening up on the Buffalo Soldiers also.
      Very interesting

    • @shimshonbendan8730
      @shimshonbendan8730 7 месяцев назад

      Just and FYI: Calvary is the crucifixion of Jesus. Cavalry are soldiers mounted on horses.

  • @caractacusbrittania7442
    @caractacusbrittania7442 4 месяца назад

    I'm reminded of a scene in John Wayne's best ever western, the searchers.....
    When he finds the body of one of his nieces,
    One of two kidnapped by the commanche under scar,
    Geoff hunter asks...
    " well..... Was she..?.."
    Wayne spits out the words visibly shaken...
    " don't ever ask..... As long as you live,dont ever ask me...".
    Fiction, I know, but memories of the ferocity and perfected cruelty of the commanche live long in the memory.

  • @artisaprimus6306
    @artisaprimus6306 5 месяцев назад +1

    Quannah Parker,son of Peta Nacona son of Iron Jacket. What a blood line!

  • @juanzulu1318
    @juanzulu1318 Год назад

    Very interesting. Thx.

  • @blakebufford6239
    @blakebufford6239 Год назад +1

    Great information and presentation. Does anyone know the site where this battle took place? It would make a great documentary .

    • @FlexBeanbag
      @FlexBeanbag Год назад

      ruclips.net/user/shortsBmc9NFfhx74?feature=share

  • @ludwigderzanker9767
    @ludwigderzanker9767 Год назад +8

    Good and tasty as always folks! Congrats I never know that the Tonkawa were provided with breech loaders and colts. The're at least 2 further cases of iron jackets reported, Cheyenne and Blackfoo I think. Besides McMurtry in the flicks you showed is a wonderful showing of the fight in The Searchers by Alan LeMay written, unfortunatedly not in the movie .You did a fine job and an important one too. Greetings from Northern Germany! Ludwig

  • @jimchastain6840
    @jimchastain6840 Год назад +1

    I worked on a reservation for 10 years, the Natives have a saying: "The one with the gold makes the rules". History goes to the winner, this was at least fairly unbiased and accurate. The Natives did not have a utopia as we like to think, they fought and warred and killed. The Comanche were known by all as the worst, the meanest and to be feared! They kept the Spanish out for over 200 years! You have to admire THAT! Or despise it! At any rate, no one wanted to mess with the Comanche! As bad as the Comanche were, the Seminole were the only ones who did not surrender however!

  • @jongutmacher1277
    @jongutmacher1277 9 месяцев назад

    Great job of telling the story.

  • @bonnieprincecharlie6248
    @bonnieprincecharlie6248 Год назад +2

    Fun fact the Tonkowa were cannibals, which is one of the reasons they were so hated by the Comanche, thats probably why they took strips of Comanche flesh, to eat them later.

    • @vaughncox9676
      @vaughncox9676 11 месяцев назад

      that was the karonkawa down nearer to the coast

  • @santafecanon
    @santafecanon Год назад

    Raised in Lubbock, (McKenzie), I heard so much off the cuff history about conflicts. This is really the truth be told.

  • @nigeldeforrest-pearce8084
    @nigeldeforrest-pearce8084 Год назад +2

    Fascinating!!!

  • @Chris-um3se
    @Chris-um3se Год назад +1

    The retribution against the Cheyenne
    Is will deserved.
    I think Ford had ' "BATTLE" calm
    Like US GRANT

  • @Zoco101
    @Zoco101 Год назад +2

    It is nicely narrated, but some of the pictures/illustrations and footage are way off. What do paintings of US Cavalry charges and scenes from Dancing with Wolves have to do with this?

  • @moss8448
    @moss8448 Год назад

    Well done. One caveat. Didn't realize there were repeating rifles in 1858, mentioned, during the initial major confrontation between natives.

    • @carsonpetersen630
      @carsonpetersen630 9 месяцев назад

      Civilians had them they hadn’t become as common as later with the Winchester I think the first multi fire king arm was produced by browning for Mormons it was a three chamber black powder musket with an open breac three chambered block Wich was preloaded and slide akin a rail after each shot then another block could be used

  • @d-shaneharrison662
    @d-shaneharrison662 3 месяца назад

    I'm from Wichita falls TX the history of my family here fighting Comanche is crazy I don't know how they did it

  • @RoboticDragon
    @RoboticDragon Год назад

    What video is the footage taken from?

  • @troyjanise9051
    @troyjanise9051 Год назад +1

    I believe the Comanche raided a bit further south east at least once. They went all the way to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and raided the town of Indianola. It's about forty miles or so south of where I live in Matagorda. People fled the town in boats to escape the Indians and watched them raid the town from off shore.

    • @markgray6982
      @markgray6982 Год назад +1

      The Comanche raided all the way down to Mexico City. Buffalo Hump had the biggest raid down to Texas Gulf Coast

  • @Rob-157
    @Rob-157 9 месяцев назад

    Your videos are the best 👍

  • @j.dunlop8295
    @j.dunlop8295 3 месяца назад +1

    Totalitarian war, for the native Americans, my family lived in this area, and had legends of surviving attacks by Apache and comanchero band's. They were historically very loose bands of young warriors!
    My family has a gun culture to day, because of these threats of +150 yrs ago! ( Family legend was; great, great grandma Florence met a band of raiders, with water and food, they left her and her children alone, going on to massacre the next farm/ranch! She, Flo was known for being half "mad!" Crazy!

  • @skanarchy694
    @skanarchy694 Год назад

    What movie or show clips are in the background?

  • @righteousviking
    @righteousviking 27 дней назад

    That SBR Henry repeater looks badass

  • @benjaminrichey278
    @benjaminrichey278 3 месяца назад

    Single combat with edged weapons in the Wild West scrubland is biblical in its epicness!!!

  • @MrPossumeyes
    @MrPossumeyes Год назад

    I've been pigging out on this channel over the last few days - much respect to the Comanche people. Time has passed, things have moved on. But you are still Comanche - if you choose to be. Spartans, Athenians, Romans, Crazy Germanic Horde Guys, Maori, Tongan, Samoan, Hawaain (SP?) Apache, Sioux, Who cares? If you have a native affiliation - big ups to you! Keep it alive! I only have a Brit colonialist affiliation - although I love being a Kiwi.

  • @Pewpro
    @Pewpro Год назад

    I can't believe I haven't found this channel before. Amazing work

  • @Stickman2030
    @Stickman2030 8 месяцев назад

    First rate presentation. As I live near the Antelope Hills, I wonder if anyone knows where exactly this combat took place? Some descriptions of this battle seem to place it some distance away from the Antelope Hills.

  • @georgesouthwick7000
    @georgesouthwick7000 Год назад +2

    In the John Wayne movie The Comancheros there is a character “Iron Shirt”, loosely based on Iron Jacket’

  • @block8893
    @block8893 Год назад +1

    Best channel

  • @IHateThisHandleSystem
    @IHateThisHandleSystem Год назад +5

    Brutal days