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A scout named Jim Bowie tries to stop white settlers from invading Comanche land and mining for silver in this B-movie. The film features the legendary knife of Jim Bowie, the beautiful Katie Howard, and the Comanche chief Quisima.
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- Western
- George Sherman
- 1950-05-01
Spanish colonists and later Mexicans called their historical territory Comanchería. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Comanche practiced a nomadic horse culture and hunted, particularly bison. They traded with neighboring Native American peoples, and Spanish, French, and American colonists and settlers.
May 21, 2024 · Comanche, North American Indian tribe of equestrian nomads whose 18th- and 19th-century territory comprised the southern Great Plains. The name Comanche is derived from a Ute word meaning “anyone who wants to fight me all the time.” The Comanche had previously been part of the Wyoming Shoshone.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Comanche Territory is a 1950 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Maureen O'Hara and Macdonald Carey. Jim Bowie is sent into Comanche country on a mission to allow the government to mine silver on the Indian's land.
The Comanche pushed the Apache south and west off the Great Plains and continued to expand southward. The Comanche grew apart from their Ute allies, both culturally and politically in the 1730s, and in 1749, the Ute asked the Spanish in New Mexico for military assistance against the Comanche.
Oct 9, 2020 · Pressure from more powerful and better-armed tribes to their north and east, principally the Blackfoot and Crow Indians, also encouraged their migration. A vast area of the South Plains, including much of North, Central, and West Texas, soon became Comanche country, or Comanchería.
May 23, 2018 · Learn about the Comanche, a powerful Plains tribe that controlled a vast area known as Comanchería. Find out how they acquired horses, traded with other cultures, and resisted U.S. expansion.
