The Comanche also have access to vast…

1804 CE to 1815 CE

The Comanche also have access to vast numbers of feral horses, which number  about two million in and around Comancheria, and which the tribe is particularly skilled at breaking to saddle.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Comanche lifestyle requires about one horse per person (though warriors each possess many more).

With a population around thirty thousand to forty thousand and in possession of herds many times that number, the Comanche have a surplus of about ninety thousand to one hundred and twenty thousand horses.

They are formidable opponents who develop strategies for using traditional weapons for fighting on horseback.

Warfare is a major part of Comanche life.

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