Comanche Raiders vs. Texas Settlers : The Murder Of Roland Nichols

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On a beautiful April morning in the idyllic Texas Hill Country town of Kerrville, a respected local citizen named Roland Nichols ventures out on a routine turkey hunt. Though the area has long been known as a dangerous one, ripe with violence and thievery from bandits and Comanche raiding parties, Nichols feels assured that there will be no trouble. He bids his wife and children a cheerful goodbye, and heads off to his favorite hunting spot.
But Roland Nichols will never be seen alive again.
His body is found, near his favorite hunting spot, stuck with two arrows and a vicious bullet wound. Apparently, Nichols is yet another unfortunate Texan settler who paid the price for trespassing on Comanche lands. But is this all there is to the story?
Join HOKC as we delve into this little-known, and frankly blood-curdling account of the murder of Roland Nichols.
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@andre36wo 7 месяцев назад

I went to rehab from drug addiction near Kerrville. Im from New Jersey. It was a truly beautiful and magical place that i miss dearly. Swimming in the Guadalupe River is one of my best memories. It's crazy to imagine the history that unfolded there

@MikeHunt-fo3ow 7 месяцев назад

how does rehab work? besides not taking drugs which you do what do they do help you thru withdrawl?

@bunk95 7 месяцев назад

Thats just [science]. Youre a [non-delete add-on addict]. Admit it.

@Goliad_Respector 7 месяцев назад

Yes. As someone who lives south of Kerrville thank you. The Texas hill country is incredible. And yes, this soil is soaked on an ocean of blood from these brave settlers.

@danielhermes4138 7 месяцев назад

U can do it bro...I'm 23 years clean..friend of Bill W

@andre36wo 7 месяцев назад

@@danielhermes4138always good to hear from a friend 💪🏻 congratulations

@MM-hg6ld 7 месяцев назад

I was in Kerrville last week. In Fredericksburg almost every weekend. So many raids in these areas. There’s a plaque of Jack ‘Coffee’ Hayes at Enchanted Rock. The Battle of Walker Creek took place near Boerne, Texas (30 minutes from Kerrville). This was the battle (25 minutes from my house) that turned in the favor of Rangers. Love this channel.

@user-vy2ne5ly3b 7 месяцев назад

My great great grandfather and his wife and children settled in East Texas. He bought some land farther west but never told his wife whhere it was because he wanted to surprise her. One day he decided to move some cattle to his new property. He was never heard from again and his wife didn't even know where to look because he never told her where he was going. Never found a trace of him or the cattle. The irony of it was that he was kin to Cynthia Ann Parker, so that if it was Comanches that attacked him (as it was believed), then they might have been related. 9:54

@marksheen4873 7 месяцев назад

Always excited to hear another HOKC

@deadhorse1391 7 месяцев назад

The Comanche name is from the Ute word Komántcia, meaning "enemy," or, literally, "anyone who wants to fight me all the time. I know lots of the settlers that came to Texas back then came from the south east, I wonder if they knew what they were getting into with the Indians when they moved out there?

@armyvet8279 7 месяцев назад

I'm sure they were told when they got there but hearing about something and actually seeing it happen are two different experiences.

@WyomingTraveler 7 месяцев назад

An interesting story with several questions. Great work

@urex1717 6 месяцев назад

Invariably brilliant in terms of research, writing and narration. You sir are a true gem for sharing your excellence with us.

@TERMICOBRA 7 месяцев назад

Can anyone explain to me the theory that Nichols, hiding from the Comanche as they walked by, hugged the tree so tightly that he inadvertently peeled a 5ft section of the bark off? Why would you hug a tree if someone was on the other side of it? Why would you hug it so tight that the bark would come off? Why would you put your gun down to hug the tree? Why would the bark come off from a hug? Why would you make the noise that would come with peeling a 5ft section of bark when you were trying to hide?

@jasond1433 7 месяцев назад

Is it even possible to hug a tree hard enough to peel bark to begin with? I agree that part of the story makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If you are aware that you have Comanche warriors on your back trail and you're ostensibly taking cover behind a tree, why wouldn't you open fire the minute they came into view on the trail? I can't even think of an explanation for that part of the story, but just about anything is more plausible than hugging a tree so hard the bark comes off.

@TERMICOBRA 7 месяцев назад

@@jasond1433 How about this for a theory; Nichols was working on peeling the large section of tree bark to make a hunting blind to hide himself from the Turkeys. That explains the tree bark coming off in one big piece and it explains why Nichols was distracted and unarmed when he was attacked. Look up; "tree bark hunting blind" on google images.

@Quincy_Morris 7 месяцев назад

Sounds like trying to blend in with the tree and no be noticed, squeezing hard so as not to move. As for the bark it’s probably dead bark so not much was needed to take it off.

@DavidAguilar-wo6ho 7 месяцев назад

You ever consider making a video on Popay’s Rebellion (The Pueblo Rebellion), you did do a great video on the Acoma Massacre, so I was just wondering if you were gonna go back to the Colonial Southwest? 👀

@JamesGroves-vr2xw 7 месяцев назад

Thank you, sir🙏🏿🇺🇸

@davidrudd9846 7 месяцев назад

Still one of the most beautiful areas of Texas

@thomasforan5598 7 месяцев назад

Absolutely. The hill country is beautiful. I lived in San Marcos back in the late 80's. I camped at Kerrville for the folk festival. Great memories.

@SerpentLord 7 месяцев назад

Do the Comanche accredit the treatment they gave the Apache to the white-eyes? Hardly. I think all the Indian tribes raided each other. Maybe it comes down to "who did it better?"

@judithcampbell1705 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for another interesting episode Sir.

@benjaminhayward5921 6 месяцев назад

"Roland Nichols" is an awesome name. It's like the 1800's equivalent of naming your kid "Stacking Bills."

@Fyrpylit 5 месяцев назад

Excellent work Sir

@Rob-157 7 месяцев назад

Good stuff as always 👍

@markmendoza5825 7 месяцев назад

Grew up camping in/around that area. Sister lives just S.of Kerrville and Fredericksburg; a beautiful area with a heavy history behind it. None the less, 1 day I hope to move up and live there

@thirddegreeburn8863 7 месяцев назад

Can you do some more videos on Canada? You’ve only done 2 abt events here but you’ve done like 30 separate videos abt Texas 💀

@HikingForLoot 7 месяцев назад

From texas and i know this area and story. it’s crazy to me how the area was described and how it looks now

@moisesbuentello5591 7 месяцев назад

Is there any chance you could do something over the battle of the Neches river in Van Zandt county?

@reuterromain1054 Месяц назад

In what year did this murder on the prairie of Texas take place?

@bold810 7 месяцев назад

Hello, HOKC. 😁👍🎉

@Ese361 7 месяцев назад

There was a Comanche raid on pioneers near Ledbetter Texas

@geneotrexler8246 7 месяцев назад

Good video 👍

@armyvet8279 7 месяцев назад

The pic at 9:00 is Jesse James, Frank James, and I don't remember the guy on the right's name.

@sofjanmustopoh7232 7 месяцев назад

Interesting

@ludwigderzanker9767 7 месяцев назад

I completely agree with you, no Comanche with any belief of proper behavior on a raid would let the body lay without any mutilation, it was just the kind of war at that time..Look at the classic western The last Waggon with Richard Widmark as Comanche Todd and pick up the sentences besides...God's Blessings from Northern Germany Ludwig.

@Quincy_Morris 7 месяцев назад

You think other tribes and Europeans commonly did things similar to what the Comanches did? That is quite the claim.

@ludwigderzanker9767 6 месяцев назад

@@Quincy_Morris I don't. I would say that the corpse without any signs of cutting or scalping found was probably a true view of white murderers. Yes there were any whites with a similar cruelty, think of Sand Creek or earlier Kirker and Glanton. But on the plains culture was the literally destroy of the, in best case, dead enemies a eminent part of the culture and belief. Some cases of killing by white people and the try to blame the Indians were reported from Kansas in the 1860s. All the best from Northern Germany Ludwig.

@RealAmericanStar 7 месяцев назад

Sounds like someone murdered him, and tried to make it look like the Comanche took his shotgun. Why else would it be partially buried?

@johnstephens2997 7 месяцев назад

Great stuff for a history buff-and yes, Tex Mex is the best.

@sallyethridge1393 7 месяцев назад

I wish all of your videos were an hour long!

@historyattheokcorral 7 месяцев назад

Longer episodes coming soon!

@Madvillain49 7 месяцев назад

weeeechaaaaa

@HistoricallyRomantic 7 месяцев назад

Tex Mex food is the best in the world 🌯 😊

@swhip897 7 месяцев назад

😂😂❤❤😂 yepper

@bc2578 7 месяцев назад

Go to Germany and get some schnitzel and get back to us on that :)

@swhip897 7 месяцев назад

@@bc2578 nah, but I'm sure it's good. Taste is a subjective thing.

@jamesfernandez6801 7 месяцев назад

You can probably get some sausage from Castroville Tex

@awolpeace1781 7 месяцев назад

Not just Mormans who try to frame indigenous people of their own atrocities committed.

@bc2578 7 месяцев назад

Right, because if your skin has dark pigment you can do no wrong, ever, right? Grow up.

@awolpeace1781 7 месяцев назад

@@Cernunnos-2024 Common human ancestor, dipsh**!!

@cplmpcocptcl6306 7 месяцев назад

@@Cernunnos-2024They were just earlier immigrants.

@lenormand4967 7 месяцев назад

@@cplmpcocptcl6306 They committed genocide against the White natives. The hidden graves hold bodies with relatives in Europe. They raped the surviving White women, who passed their DNA to their daughters. Not a single White man or male infant survived the Chinese invaders. This is also the confirmed history of New Zealand.

@lenormand4967 7 месяцев назад

Mormons dressed up as indians and did what they did. If indians weren't doing that while dressing in my White man's clothes and beads, it would have been more difficult for the criminal gang known as "mormans" to hide their identities.

@josephsorrendino4920 7 месяцев назад

Kerrville is where the speed limit goes to 80.

@JohnLee-kv4uv 6 месяцев назад

No matter what tribe we are from, all the brutally that has been down must be learnt to never happen again, You mate, with drug issues, all I ask is be strong, go back where you feel free, much respect 🙏