Texas Rangers vs. Comanche Raiders : The Battle of Antelope Hills

Texas Rangers vs. Comanche Raiders : The Battle of Antelope Hills
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A legendary Texas Ranger is called out of retirement to hunt down a band of Comanche warriors led by an equally legendary chief clad in Old Spanish armor. Don’t miss one of the most bizarre scenes in Old West history on this episode of @historyattheokcorral

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Links to sources:
“Texas Rangers” by Walter Prescott Webb https://a.co/d/e225k4G

“RIP Ford’s Risky Ranger Raid” by Mike Coppock

Rip Ford’s Risky Ranger Raid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Salmon_Ford

Battle in Antelope Hills

https://www.frontiertimesmagazine.com/blog/the-killing-of-the-indian-chief-iron-jacket

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25 Comments

  1. Is that Old RIP FORD? The man carried Two Walker Colts in the Rangers. I think he was a Col. in the CSA Army. I also think he fought in the last battle of the Civil War. RIP meant Rest in Peace.

  2. Not very P.C. but true! It’s always the pioneers who can’t live peacefully with the Indians? Plenty of
    room for us all. Good Bless Texas! 🤘🤠🤘

  3. A well done video on the struggles of Native American Comanche vs the Texas Rangers and their Allies. One could almost picture this battle taking place. With your ability to describe it in your video. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

  4. The Commaches reciprocated the ALL ENCOMPASSING BARBARISM Europeans UNLEASHED upon their civilization, thereby destroying TIMELESS TRADITIONS.
    So what is the moral of your story???

  5. Ok- so you need to start with where the commanches came from. They were part of the Shoshones in the Great Basin – eastern oregon- nevada- Idaho part of wyoming. They moved south toward texas and mexico to get near the supply of horses. They adopted border war ethos- hence the killing.
    best
    Bruce Peek

  6. The Commanches exterminated many small tribes. If the white man had come 500 years later, it is thought all other tribes would have been exterminated in a country wide genocide..

  7. Thanks for this video . After enjoying all the cowboy and cavalry stories all my days …and I am over sixty and a Brit interested in all human history … you tell me about and map a country I had never heard of in America , Comancheria . What a large area it was too . I approve of your honest history telling . Subscribed to hear more about real US history as a result . All the Best .

  8. So that’s where the Parkers got their Indian blood from I have a good friend his mother was a Parker and he ( Jackie) told me he had Indian blood and where his family came from. He was a real friend he became a Deputy Sheriff I had to make him fight in junior high school. He didn’t want too but the guy kept bullying him so I told him finally if you don whip him I am gonna whip you and he fought and cried the whole time but he Won after that he wasn’t a coward anymore he became a Fine. Man. Rip. Jackie

  9. Reason the Tonkawa had stripped Comanche flesh from what stragglers they caught was that they practiced cannibalism.And I believe Cynthia Parker had recieved a visit by her relatives in the presence of Nakoma during some horse trading sometime before this event and had refused an offer to try and escape back with them and Nacoma wasn't doing any trading for her. They said she was pretty standoffish by then.. They wrote about that somewhere that escapes my memory now.

    Her Brother was young enough to be assimilated into the Quahadi which the Comanche were known to do. On the way back from a raid in Mexico he took ill with smallpox and was left there with a captive girl. Having better resistance to smallpox than the natives he survived and I'm not sure what happened after with him although I believe they stayed together. I've heard about that a couple places, one being somewhere on Youtube. Maybe a poster named "Unworthy History" that references old accounts or possibly You?
    When you get as old as I'm getting sometimes the lights are on but nobodies home, lol. .

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