200 years? I thought it more like 40.Regardless,as Cynthia(Quanah)relays:
.....The Comanche crossed the land bridge from Asia to America between 11,000 and 5000 BC. Gwynne describes them as �short, dark-skinned, heavy-limbed, squat-legged and ungraceful� and says that in the millennia that followed their migration, �They grubbed and hunted for a living using stone weapons and tools.� The approximately 5000 members of the tribe�divided into several bands--traveled on frames pulled by dogs. They killed buffalo by setting prairie grass on fire and stampeding their prey over cliffs or into pits. Writes Gwynne: �They were primitive even by primitive standards.�
And then? �What happened to the tribe between roughly 1625 and 1750 was one of the great social and military transformations in history,� writes Gwynne. �Few nations have ever progressed with such breathtaking speed from skulking pariah to dominant power.�
*Hard to put down,wasn't it doctor? The atrocities that each warring faction committed upon the other make some of our gang POS' seem like a bunch of puzzies.
