Texas Rangers vs. Comanche Warriors : The Shovel Mountain Fight Of 1870 

On the return ride home, not the first Dad to Son "Don't tell your mother" speech 😂

Youre doing a great service to the Texas culture! The Comanche and Rangers should be remembered

One of my ancestors under the Republic Of Texas was an early Texas Ranger and is honored and buried in the State Capitals cemetary he had a Law degree and was Sam Houstons Friend and he served in the Texas Government upon entering the union he wrote the legislation that created the updated and new Ranger Force from the earlier Rep.Tx. One that Stephen and Moses Austin first created he also fought at battles of Plum Creek and Salado as well as San Jacinto.

I just found out that an 80 year old friend's great grandfather or great, great grandfather was a Texas ranger by the name of Jack Dollman in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He just gave me a framed picture of Dollman. Hoping to find more information on him for Hoot.

I never knew how brutal and feared Comanches were until I researched that. The Comanches were a horrible scourge of killers for no apparent reason. The history behind them, explained why they had a reason for that and a fierce defense of their homeland. Fascinating history. The Comanche hated everyone, white, other Indian tribes, everybody.

A great documentary

Wonderful story. Thank you for taking us home, for a visit.

Thank you 💛 for this history lesson. I love learning history the way you teach it. One battle of importance at a time. Thanks again! ❤

Great story of one battle between the Rangers and Comanche First People. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

Awesome job with this channel

Another great story. Love your stuff.

I was here just as promised, I grew up with a Texas ranger named Kid, his brother was Roy Kid.

Great story as usual

Nice job, and valuable contribution to the preservation of history, which is too often distorted in favor of the Indians by romanticizing their culture and behavior as positive or justified. But why the ending comment that the "(Commanches way of life was SADLY and abruptly brought to an end)" when it is undisputable that this Commanche "way" of life was dominated by and assured by aggressive brutality and cruelty in their claim and domination of territory in the West of 24,000 square miles? Their demise was not due to the loss of this terriorty, far and excess of the need of life support of only about approx. 15,000 commanche, but due to self-defense, the right to survive and revenge of the people the Commanche tormented - Americans and other Indians tribes. And the end of the scourge took place too slowly for the myriad victims of their brutality and sadism. "Sadly" implies that the writer feels there was somehow nobility in the Commanche fierocity against the helpless and innocent. Is there worthiness and even legitimacy to exist, in a culture where people tormented others without regard to decency, justice and love. Was their culture as worthy to exist as one defined by assured by universal law, cooperation and universal love? Why romanticize negative, savage culture just because it involves a people who eventually had to give it up due the imperative and natural process of the evolution Mankind? Too often, young people who have not seen war and genocide, or maybe who have, feel "respect" for the savage enemy - a warrior's respect for prowess in battle, untempered by the savagery committed. Or a respect for the vanquished as the "underdog" in a battle? (but the Native American warrior societies often held the upperhand in the development and civilizing of North America). That is misplaced respect, Misplaced admiration. The Indians, especially the Commanche, were cruel and sadistic in battle and in treatment of their victims, intentionally so to strike terror in the hearts of their victims so they could dominate and become rich on theft, and establish their glory in the eyes of their tribes whom thay made wealthy thereby. the demise of Commanche power (and generally of the power other indigenouis stone age tribes), and the sadistic, brutal, vain glorious, egotistical, chauvanistic, aggressive and greedy culture that it entailed and enshrined, is not an occasion for sadness, but celebration and great relief, on the part of humanity and civilization. Historians and history should show the reality, not romanticization of history which is not only a distortion of the reality but also a betrayal of the helpless and innocent victims of the romanticized savages. If we think that the Commanche were only defending their natural right to the land and their way of life, we must remember that they "won" this land and way of life by extreme cruelty and aggression and that their "way" of life was essentially negative, savage. Instead of white-washing Indian savagery, and we should lament, remember and empathize with their innocent victims who suffered unbearable grief and suffering and who actually had a greater natural right to the land for its peaceful cultivation for widespread prosperity and adoption into the empire of universal law that incorporated universal liberty, the dignity of mankind and the sanctity of life, that was and is the United States. The Commanche "empire" (and that of many other Indian groups) was no such empire but an inter-tribal cooperation for the domination of the lives and wealth of others under the law of "survival of the fittest", which in the Stone Age meant the most aggressive, ruthless, brutal and cruel. If asked who they are, or who are their people, today's "native" Americans will typically respond "my tribe" / Commanche, Shawenee, Cherokee etc, but Americans (who are "non native"?) will typically respond I am an American / a human being and that my people are Americans and all humanity regardless of race, ethnicity, etc. The indigenous people of North America and their unevolved, devisive and belligerent stone age culture was not eliminated by genocide and racial hatred but was naturally displaced under the laws of evolution by the American culture because that American culture was more positive, more advanced, more evolved, benefitting all mankind , rather than perpetually generating war, hatred, devisiveness, revenge, insecurity, and nightmare that was the miserable mire of North American Stone Age culture.

Leakey is often mispronounced. They pronounce it "Lake-key". I have walked the cemetery there and have seen many graves dating back to early 1800's. The last family killed by Indians is buried there also. If you ever get over that way, stop and check out that cemetery. Many Confederate soldiers interred there also.

Excellent.

Its seems almost not real

Thanks!

Good video 👍

I love Working in dripping springs simply a beautiful city just now turning into a suburb sadly. Bexar they pronounce it “bear” today I wonder how it changed from its old origins

Thank you boys, this tale was never heard before by me and I enjoyed it thoroughly! 🎉 All a question of using enough gun. Not Henry's 1870 ? God's Blessings from Northern Germany Ludwig.

I encourage people to read Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee bc all the accounts from the side of settlers has a deeply disturbing flip side. What happened to Natives in their own land should be better known so the entire story is told. By 1880 40 million buffalo were slaughtered. This was to force the Natives who were left on to Reservations. Land were very little grew & people were sick & dying. ☮️

So what you're sayin' is Texans should shoot for the commanding chief? 😉

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Hey max, Sam, and Chance, I’d love to win a knife. Thanks

"...hardship and violence." These are some of the men we owe the fact we moderns mostly no longer live with these unpleasant things.

History OK . . . Rufus at 10:35 . . . How can the extrememe colour of his hands vs his face, be accounted for ?

It really sucks to hear that all these rangers died peaceful in their homes at retirement age. Makes it seem like karma is not real. Most if the commanches were good people.