In popular pre-PC Texas history at least, Comanches unthinkingly committed pillage, rape and murder.
Hamalainen in "
Comanche Empire" gives a more nuanced version. I mean, pillage rape and murder were still a main export, but I least they thought about it (tho' I doubt the author would support that interpretation
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Such a society would account for the early difficulties suffered by the young Quanah Parker after he was orphaned at age twelve (as describe in Gwynne's "Empire of the Summer Moon).
Birdwatcher
