Then followed the devastating dry years of the 1850’s which hammered the buffalo herds to the extent that, even with half the tribe gone, it was starvation that drove large numbers of Comanches onto their first reservation.
But Columbus' "discovery" of America was bad and the white man was evil. There is a good chance the Comanches would have perished as a people due to these factors without the bad, evil reservations and being forced into the white man's ways. Just like nearly every other tribe.
