EOP 6 The Comanches, Part 6
from Echoes of Place Hosted by B. Michael Landry
In part 6 of this series, by the mid 1790s, the tentative peace between the Spanish and the Comanches... against the Apaches had come to an end... And soon the Comanches resumed their raids into Northern Mexico... But the Spanish could not dedicate resources to deal with the Comanche threat... They had a bigger problem... By then... waves of Anglo Americans.... mostly Scotch Irish...settlers had spread out into areas east of the Mississippi River... In this episode, we'll explore the motivations of these frontiersmen... And how their experience with native Americans... influenced their later dealings with the Comanches...
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