Another great volume on the Comanches

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   Author Pekka HamLainen wrote how the Comanche empire ruled large chunks of North America with his simple tote book called "The Comanche Empire". The book details the success this tribe had of thwarting Spanish and American penetraters for so long until weapon technology opened up their lands and eventually defeated this horse and trading empire. This book goes into more detail for the trading links that empowered the Comanches so long and how they assimilated so many different peoples through the centuries.

It highlighted how many New Mexican communities were actually becoming Comanchized instead of the usually Hispanicization  that most Indians of the Southwest were accustomed for centuries. Mexican City had long I eluded power to the Comanche's in the Northern lands and mostly their campaigns against them ended miserably in defeat. Comanche power was the main reason Mexico welcomed so many American migrants and only massive influx and migration from Europe doomed the ability of the Comanches from establishing a empire along the lines of the Aztecs and Mayans. Comanche culture was one similar to modern Americans of being a  Culture of perpetual war and slavery was often used to fill in the gaps of their society.as Americans were fighting the British for independence the Comanche's were already in a similar fight against the Spaniards and were unbeatable once they mastered the horse. Comanche's were effective diplomats making good use of Indian allies in their rural endless wars against the Apache and the Spanish. This is a fact that often goes unnoticed and the same ability was used in fighting the Americans and Texans. The trading network and success was primarily the reason so many smaller Indian tribes gladly accepted Comanche superiority but also tremendous one sided victories on the battlefield against their smaller neighbors also brought them into their camp. Comanche hatred was primarily reserved towards the Apaches and Spaniard/Mexicans as the Apaches were pretty much exterminated in large parts of the Southwest Hamalainen writes how the Comanche's were multi-ethnic much like the Seminoles of Florida who were also denied an empire by the forces of European migration to the states. Untold numbers of Indians who once called themselves Caddos, Apaches, Pawnees, Shoshones, Cherokees, Choctows, Delaware, and others would become Comanches and easily make the adaptation if proved worthy of this tribe. The tribe mainly became defeated because technology enabled the Americans to kill off large parts of the buffalo from the planes and only this enabled Comanche power to collapse.