Dan Flores
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
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Gunfighters · Ep. 39: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part II | The American West · 28 Jul 2026
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He said they welcomed our traders among them, but that Natchitoches was too far to come to trade.
He did not like the idea of a trade factory in their country.
Thus embarked a period of near to a month when a significant portion of these Indians travel with us, a circumstance not entirely pleasing to us because of the inclination of their young men to make off with our horses and goods.
With apology, Cordero returned or replaced what he could, yet the annoyance sometimes strained our daily intercourse.
The Haitans or Comanches are a large people, heavier than many Indians, with broad faces and slow movements until they alight their horses, at which horse and rider achieve a remarkable unity of movement and activity.
Watching their feats of horsemanship in their home country, and more especially the flair with which they pursue and drive their arrows entirely through the buffalo whilst riding at full gallop, I was put in mind of the cavalry of the Tartars on the steppes of Mongolia.
Like the Mongols, they are herders of horses.
Yet they rarely eat of them.
Their horses are a means to hunt, and they also trade them widely."
They live exclusively in buffalo skin tents, the covers and poles of which they are endlessly replenishing, but which endure the constant winds which sweep this open country and are dissembled so rapidly by their women that a camp can be broken to search for fresh pasture for their herds in moments.
The men have as many horses as they can accumulate and as many wives as they can care for, the younger of which accompany them on their hunts and raids.
Comanche women engage daily in the labor of processing animal skins, the results of which are exceedingly handsome.
But among these hunters, they do not appear to share political power to the extent the Pawnee women do.
The Comanches are at war with the Osages and the Apaches, but were at this very time in the process of making peace through intermarriage with their neighbors, the Kiowas.
Beyond any expectation, Indians from other tribes and a great many Spaniards captured as children are found among them, living as Comanches and apparently wishing for no other life.
I befriended one of their physicians, a man of particular influence among them, who instructed me in their materia medica.
Particularly interesting are three of their cures.
The first, a plant which he said inhibits a woman's ability to conceive of child.
They also have a method of curing toothache, or the common aching head, viz.
by the chewing of the stems of the ordinary willow.
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