[vetvetdoug]

Quanah Parker was the last Comanche chief to be subjugated and lived near Lawton, Oklahoma, in Comanche County, Oklahoma. He was the Chief of the last rogue tribe of the Comanches and was credited with the last Native American victory against the US Cavalry. Fifteen years after fighting the US Army, he was visited and rode with Theodore Roosevelt near Frederick, Oklahoma. The story may have been a little footloose with the history but to portray the Comanche as brutal and cruel would be correct.

[katana]

The Comanche made the Apaches, who they brutally displaced west into Arizona, look like the local Welcome Wagon. Quanah Parker was the half white son of the abducted Cynthia Ann Parker, whose own story was the supposed basis for what may be the greatest Western ever filmed, John Ford's The Searchers.

[T-Bone Texan]

The Comanche were indeed brutal and cruel, and then we whipped them and forced them to behave.

Don’t romanticize violent Neolithic savages!