propagate the notion that Comanches
were demons who wallowed in the
blackest depths of human cruelty,”
wrote Harrigan. “Torture and ritual
mutilation were not confined to the
Indians, of course. The difference was
that white society had learned to fear
and scorn in itself the very bloodlust
the Comanches celebrated.”
Our Food, Your Home!
The reign of the Comanche horse
culture drew to an end in the wake of
1874's Second Battle of Adobe Walls,
fought out on the Llano Estacado, and
the subsequent Red River War (June
of 1874 into the spring of 1875). The
net result was the final relocation
of Southern Plains Indians to Indian
Territory (Oklahoma) reservations
and the opening of the Panhandle to
Anglo settlement.
White pioneers, first braving then
flocking to the Texas frontier, found
ponies aplenty. Settlers in our area
and places east often ventured out
onto the plains west of the Cross Timbers to capture and break wild horses
for sale or for use as cow ponies.
These rugged folk employed some
very odd collection strategies, perhaps the strangest and least successful
being “creasing.”
“...Either running down the mustang
he wanted or hiding beside a water
hole or a salt lick, the hunter would
send a bullet through the top of the
animal's neck, at the root of the mane
and close to the spinal column,”
Gard wrote in the 1960s. “This would
stun the horse and cause him to drop
to the ground long enough for the
mustanger to tie the feet and put on a
halter or rope.”
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