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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It's a major trade.
Yeah, well, one of the lines, I have the Comanche leader that they...
they treat with and who actually travels with them for a couple of months and guides them to the headwaters of the Red River.
His name, and he's a real figure in history, he was known as Cordero to the Spaniards, but his real name was Isambambi, and in the Comanche language that meant handsome wolf.
He was a man of about 50 years of age whenever Freeman and Custis would have gone into the southwest up the Red River.
and I have him use a line which I invented, but I don't think it's out of character whatsoever for the Comanches and these Comanche headmen in particular.
He tells Freeman and Custis, it's good for you Americans that there's not a continuation of planes and buffalo and horses in
out in the direction where you come from, because if there were, I fear my people would overrun you.
I mean, that's the way the Comanches looked at the world.
They did create an empire.
They were a Uto-Aztecan people that had come to the southwest only about 100 years before this.
This is set in 1806.
And they had come to the southwest because they regarded it as the origin of horses, as
Horses were traded up the Rocky Mountains to various tribes from the Utes, the ancestors of the Comanches, who were in probably southwestern Wyoming, northeastern Utah.
They were sort of Shoshonean-like people and related to the Shoshones and Utes.
But when they got horses, they basically came south and they took the southern plains from the Arkansas River all the way down to the Rio Grande, down to the Mexican border.
Basically took the country away from the Apaches who had owned it for two or three hundred years.
set up an empire that traded horses that sort of raided Spanish ranches for cattle and horses to trade to the Americans.
This was known as the Comanchero trade.
John Wayne did a movie about it, in fact.
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