Stacey Beasley’s Reviews > Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History > Status Update

Ironically, One of the reasons Mexico had encouraged Americans to settle into the territory in the 1820s and 30s was because they wanted a buffer against Comanches a sort of insurance policy on their borderland. In that sense the Alamo, Goliad, San Jacinto and the birth of the Texas Republic were a product of a misguided scheme to stop the Comanches.

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By 1836 the Spanish were long gone. The Mexicans that were left had even less success dealing with Comanches who contemptuously referred to them as their stop keepers.

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