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Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier

Daniel J. Gelo,Christopher J. Wickham

Author : Daniel J. Gelo,Christopher J. Wickham
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623495947

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Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier by Daniel J. Gelo,Christopher J. Wickham Pdf

Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of Texas In 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Heinrich Berghaus’s study was based on lexical data gathered by a young German settler in Texas, Emil Kriewitz, and included a groundbreaking list of Comanche words and their German translations. Berghaus also offered Kriewitz’s cultural notes on the Comanches, a discussion of the existing literature on the three tribes, and an original map of Comanche hunting grounds. Perhaps because it was published only in German, the existence of Berghaus’s study has been all but unknown to North American scholars, even though it offers valuable insights into Native American languages, toponyms, ethnonyms, hydronyms, and cultural anthropology. It was also a significant document revealing the history of German-Comanche relations in Texas. Daniel J. Gelo and Christopher J. Wickham now make available for the first time a reliable English translation of this important nineteenth-century document. In addition to making the article accessible to English speakers, they also place Berghaus’s work into historical context and provide detailed commentary on its value for anthropologists and historians who study German settlement in Texas. Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier will make significant contributions to multiple disciplines, opening a new lens onto Native American ethnography and ethnology.

Comanches, Captives, and Germans

Daniel J. Gelo,C. B. "Hoppy" Hopkins,Christopher J. Wickham,Bryden E. Moon, Jr.

Author : Daniel J. Gelo,C. B. "Hoppy" Hopkins,Christopher J. Wickham,Bryden E. Moon, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1649670133

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Comanches, Captives, and Germans by Daniel J. Gelo,C. B. "Hoppy" Hopkins,Christopher J. Wickham,Bryden E. Moon, Jr. Pdf

Around 1848 Wilhelm Friedrich, a young German immigrant to Texas, completed three drawings that capture unique details of life on the frontier. Friedrich's sketches feature Comanches, Germans, a captive girl, a wagon train, the landscape and wildlife of the Texas Hill Country, and dynamic scenes of cultural contact. Friedrich is the only artist known to have produced contemporaneous images of a Comanche captive while still in captivity. The authors use their expertise in Comanche culture, German immigration, art, and Hill Country history to explore the many layers of meaning in Friedrich's drawings. Who was Wilhelm Friedrich? How did he come to Texas? What information does he pack into his drawing? How can we understand his work--as art, as data about Comanche life and customs, and as a record of German values and priorities in the New World? Who is the captive girl? And why is her portrayal important today?

The German Texas Frontier in 1853

Daniel J. Gelo,Christopher J. Wickham

Author : Daniel J. Gelo,Christopher J. Wickham
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574419382

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The German Texas Frontier in 1853 by Daniel J. Gelo,Christopher J. Wickham Pdf

Ferdinand Lindheimer was already renowned as the father of Texas botany when, in late 1852, he became the founding editor of the Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung, a German-language weekly newspaper for the German settler community on the Central Texas frontier. His first year of publication was a pivotal time for the settlers and the American Indians whose territories they occupied. Based on an analysis of the paper’s first year—and drawing on methods from documentary and narrative history, ethnohistory, and literary analysis—Daniel J. Gelo and Christopher J. Wickham deliver a new chronicle of the frontier in 1853. In keeping with Lindheimer’s background as a naturalist, the natural resources available are a constant subject for reporting. One special concern is the availability and ownership of wood, so essential for building lumber, fencing, and fuel. Most dramatically, the discovery of trace amounts of gold encouraged prospecting by German and Anglo settlers, which later influenced decisions to remove Indians to reservations. The activities of the area’s Indian peoples emerge in weekly details not found in other sources. Some Lipan Apaches are killed when the army does not learn of their peaceful intentions; restitution is made at Fredericksburg. A settler named Gadt is murdered, and Tonkawas are suspected. A horse raid southeast of San Antonio is blamed on the Lipans but turns out to be the work of non-Indians in disguise. The Delawares are driven temporarily to Indian Territory. Comanche men leave their families at Fort Chadbourne to embark on a raid against the Lipans. The Penateka band of Comanches honors the peace agreement they signed with the Germans six years earlier, but their days in the region are numbered. Lindheimer enhances the reportage with lengthy features on related subjects and exerts a strong editorial voice as he seeks to influence the development of a distinctive Texas German identity. His work, explained in this new study, will appeal not only to students of Texas history and ecology, Indigenous populations, immigration, intercultural encounters, and nineteenth-century Americana, but also to general readers who enjoy the rediscovery of hidden history.

The Captured

Scott Zesch

Author : Scott Zesch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429910118

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On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historians rigor and a novelists eye, Zesch's The Captured paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity. "A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen." - Kirkus Reviews

Comanches

T.R. Fehrenbach

Author : T.R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307774002

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Comanches by T.R. Fehrenbach Pdf

Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion. Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of arrows. They lived by a strict legal code and worshipped within a cosmology of magic. As he portrays the Comanche lifestyle, Fehrenbach re-creates their doomed battle against European encroachment. While they destroyed the Spanish dream of colonizing North America and blocked the French advance into the Southwest, the Comanches ultimately fell before the Texas Rangers and the U.S. Army in the great raids and battles of the mid-nineteenth century. This is a classic American story, vividly and poignantly told.

The Comanche Empire

Pekka Hämäläinen

Author : Pekka Hämäläinen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300151176

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The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen Pdf

A study that uncovers the lost history of the Comanches shows in detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they were defeated in 1875.

Nine Years Among the Indians: 1870-1879

Herman Lehmann

Author : Herman Lehmann
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547733393

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Nine Years Among the Indians: 1870-1879 by Herman Lehmann Pdf

Nine Years Among the Indians is an autobiography of Herman Lehmann, who was an eleven-year-old boy when he was captured by a raiding party of eight to ten Apaches alongside his older brother Willie. The Apaches called Lehmann "En Da" (White Boy). He spent about six years with them and became assimilated into their culture, rising to the position of petty chief. As a young warrior, one of his most memorable battles was a running fight with the Texas Rangers on August 24, 1875, which took place near Fort Concho, about 65 miles west of the site of San Angelo, Texas.The phenomenon of a white child raised by Indians made Herman Lehmann a notable figure in the United States.

Jeff Davis's Own

James R. Arnold

Author : James R. Arnold
Publisher : Castle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0785821910

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Jeff Davis's Own by James R. Arnold Pdf

Excitingly told and meticulously researched, this is an intriguing and colorful saga of the commanders who united to fight an enemy on its native ground, then divided again to face each other across the battlefields of their own homeland.

Comanches

T. R. Fehrenbach

Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Comanche Indians
ISBN : UOM:39015040121413

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Comanches by T. R. Fehrenbach Pdf

Describes the culture and history of the Nermernuh Plains Indians from their prehistoric beginnings through their gradual disintegration as an independent nation.

Friedrichsburg

Friedrich Armand Strubberg,James C. Kearney

Author : Friedrich Armand Strubberg,James C. Kearney
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780292737693

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Friedrichsburg by Friedrich Armand Strubberg,James C. Kearney Pdf

Founded in 1846, Fredericksburg, Texas, was established by German noblemen who enticed thousands of their compatriots to flee their overcrowded homeland with the prospect of free land in a place that was portrayed as a new Garden of Eden. Few of the settlers, however, were prepared for the harsh realities of the Texas frontier or for confrontation with the Comanche Indians. In his 1867 novel Friedrichsburg, Friedrich Armand Strubberg, a.k.a. Dr. Schubbert, interwove his personal story with a fictional romance to capture the flavor of Fredericksburg, Texas, during its founding years when he served as the first colonial director. Now available in a contemporary translation, Friedrichsburg brings to life the little-known aspects of life among these determined but often ill-equipped settlers who sought to make the transition to a new home and community on the Texas frontier. Opening just as a peace treaty is being negotiated between the German newcomers and the Comanches, the novel describes the unlikely survival of these fledgling homesteads and provides evidence that support from the Delaware Indians, as well as the nearby Mormon community of Zodiac, was key to the Germans’ success. Along the way, Strubberg also depicts the laying of the cornerstone to the Vereinskirche, the blazing of an important new road to Austin, exciting hunting scenes, and an admirable spirit of cultural cohesion and determined resilience. In so doing, he resurrects a fascinating lost world.

Confederates and Comancheros

James Bailey Blackshear,Glen Sample Ely

Author : James Bailey Blackshear,Glen Sample Ely
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806177304

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Confederates and Comancheros by James Bailey Blackshear,Glen Sample Ely Pdf

A vast and desolate region, the Texas–New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings—never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle trafficking and trade among the Plains tribes and Comancheros. This book takes us to the borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s for an in-depth look at Union-Confederate skullduggery amid the infamous Comanche-Comanchero trade in stolen Texas livestock. In 1862, the Confederates abandoned New Mexico Territory and Texas west of the Pecos River, fully expecting to return someday. Meanwhile, administered by Union troops under martial law, the region became a hotbed of Rebel exiles and spies, who gathered intelligence, disrupted federal supply lines, and plotted to retake the Southwest. Using a treasure trove of previously unexplored documents, authors James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely trace the complicated network of relationships that drew both Texas cattlemen and Comancheros into these borderlands, revealing the urban elite who were heavily involved in both the legal and illegal transactions that fueled the region’s economy. Confederates and Comancheros deftly weaves a complex tale of Texan overreach and New Mexican resistance, explores cattle drives and cattle rustling, and details shady government contracts and bloody frontier justice. Peopled with Rebels and bluecoats, Comanches and Comancheros, Texas cattlemen and New Mexican merchants, opportunistic Indian agents and Anglo arms dealers, this book illustrates how central these contested borderlands were to the history of the American West.

Country of the Cursed and the Driven

Paul Barba

Author : Paul Barba
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496229441

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2022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West 2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best book on Southwestern History In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas--a hotly contested land where states wielded little to no real power--local alliances and controversies, face-to-face relationships, and kin ties structured personal dynamics and cross-communal concerns alike. Country of the Cursed and the Driven brings readers into this world through a sweeping analysis of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo-American slaving regimes, illuminating how slaving violence, in its capacity to bolster and shatter families and entire communities, became both the foundation and the scourge, the panacea and the curse, of life in the borderlands. As scholars have begun to assert more forcefully over the past two decades, slavery was much more diverse and widespread in North America than previously recognized, engulfing the lives of Native, European, and African descended people across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico. Paul Barba details the rise of Texas's slaving regimes, spotlighting the ubiquitous, if uneven and evolving, influences of colonialism and anti-Blackness. By weaving together and reframing traditionally disparate historical narratives, Country of the Cursed and the Driven challenges the common assumption that slavery was insignificant to the history of Texas prior to Anglo American colonization, arguing instead that the slavery imported by Stephen F. Austin and his colonial followers in the 1820s found a comfortable home in the slavery-stained borderlands, where for decades Spanish colonists and their Comanche neighbors had already unleashed waves of slaving devastation.

Comanche Dawn

Newman Young

Author : Newman Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1432785036

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Comanche Dawn by Newman Young Pdf

"HUNDREDS OF INDIANS OUT FRONT, SHUT THE BIG GATE TO THE FORT" One of the most terrifying and tragic events in Texas History was the Comanche and Kiowa Indian attack and massacre at Fort Parker in 1836.Nine year old Cynthia Ann Parker and her five year old brother John, were captured by the Comanche Indians. Five inhabitants of the fort were killed, scalped, and mutilated. A total of five people were captured and others were chased into the woods. This book, Comanche Dawn, is a history of life and events through the years following the attack and massacre. Cynthia Ann Parker was adopted by the Comanche tribe and later married Chief Peta Nocona. They had three children. The oldest son, Quanah, became one of the greatest Comanche chiefs. The book tells of Indian raids on the Texas settlements, the battles between the Comanche and the U.S. Cavalry, and a complete history of the Comanche Indians known as Lords of the Southern Plains. Let's saddle the horses and take a ride back in time to the Texas Frontier, 1836.

The Comanches

Ernest Wallace,E. Adamson Hoebel

Author : Ernest Wallace,E. Adamson Hoebel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806150208

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The Comanches by Ernest Wallace,E. Adamson Hoebel Pdf

The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the other direction, they were indeed the Lords of the South Plains. For more than a century and a half, since they had first moved into the Southwest from the north, the Comanches raided and pillaged and repelled all efforts to encroach on their hunting grounds. They decimated the pueblo of Pecos, within thirty miles of Santa Fé. The Spanish frontier settlements of New Mexico were happy enough to let the raiding Comanches pass without hindrance to carry their terrorizing forays into Old Mexico, a thousand miles down to Durango. The Comanches fought the Texans, made off with their cattle, burned their homes, and effectively made their own lands unsafe for the white settlers. They fought and defeated at one time or another the Utes, Pawnees, Osages, Tonkawas, Apaches, and Navahos. These were "The People," the spartans of the prairies, the once mighty force of Comanches, a surprising number of whom survive today. More than twenty-five hundred live in the midst of an alien culture which as grown up around them. This book is the story of that tribe—the great traditions of the warfare, life, and institutions of another century that are today vivid memories among its elders. Despite their prolonged resistance, the Comanches, too, had to "come in." On a sultry summer day in June 1875, a small band of starving tribesmen straggled in to Fort Sill, near the Wichita Mountains in what is now the southwestern part of the state of Oklahoma. There they surrendered to the military authorities. So ended the reign of the Comanches on the southwestern frontier. Their horses had been captured and destroyed; the buffalo were gone; most of their tipis had been burned. They had held out to the end, but the time had now come for them to submit to the United States government demands.

On the Border with Mackenzie, Or, Winning West Texas from the Comanches

Robert Goldthwaite Carter

Author : Robert Goldthwaite Carter
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015066901151

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On the Border with Mackenzie, Or, Winning West Texas from the Comanches by Robert Goldthwaite Carter Pdf

Account of the Indian Wars on the Texas frontier during the 1870's.

Comanches And Germans On The Texas Frontier

Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier by Daniel J. Gelo,Christopher J. Wickham Pdf

Comanches, Captives, and Germans by Daniel J. Gelo,C. B. "Hoppy" Hopkins,Christopher J. Wickham,Bryden E. Moon, Jr. Pdf

The German Texas Frontier in 1853 by Daniel J. Gelo,Christopher J. Wickham Pdf

The Captured by Scott Zesch Pdf

Comanches by T.R. Fehrenbach Pdf

The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen Pdf

Nine Years Among the Indians: 1870-1879 by Herman Lehmann Pdf

Jeff Davis's Own by James R. Arnold Pdf

Comanches by T. R. Fehrenbach Pdf

Friedrichsburg by Friedrich Armand Strubberg,James C. Kearney Pdf

Confederates and Comancheros by James Bailey Blackshear,Glen Sample Ely Pdf

Country of the Cursed and the Driven by Paul Barba Pdf

Comanche Dawn by Newman Young Pdf

The Comanches by Ernest Wallace,E. Adamson Hoebel Pdf

On the Border with Mackenzie, Or, Winning West Texas from the Comanches by Robert Goldthwaite Carter Pdf

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