The Comanche Barrier To South Plains Settlement.

RUPERT RICHARDSON

Other works by RUPERT RICHARDSON

Publication: Hardin-Simmons University, 1991, Abilene

Second and Enlarged Edition. Quarter morocco with maroon colored cloth and a brown morocco spine label. Limited to 225 copies. 260pp. Illustrations. Edited by Kenneth R. Jacobs and signed by him. Introduction by A.C. Greene. Second and enlarged edition. This new edition has restored over 10,000 words which were edited out by the Arthur H. Clark Company edition of 1933 because of the Depression-related cost pressures. Discusses the first relations between Comanches and Europeans, the Spanish and Mexican expansion into the Southwest, the establishment of white settlements in Texas, Sam Houston's attempts at peace with the Comanches, Comanche raids and depredations, Texas Rangers and military expeditions, the Kiowas, Apaches, and other Plains tribes, Buffalo Hump and other important Comanche leaders, the Council House Fight of 1840, the Battle of Adobe Walls, the eventual removal of the Comanches from Texas, etc. A very handsome book designed by Thomas W. Taylor. An important new edition of this classic account of the years of hostile Indian raids by Comanche and Kiowa Indians on the early settlers of Texas. As New. Protected in a slipcase.

Inventory Number: 53875