80 REAL Photos of the COMANCHE — The Most FEARED Tribe of the Old West and How They Fought

Eighty real photographs of the Comanche and their Kiowa allies, the horsemen who ruled the Southern Plains, from 1867 to 1945. The Lords of the Southern Plains and their empire of horses. Cynthia Ann Parker, taken at nine in 1836, and her son Quanah. Satanta, Satank and Big Tree. The delegations to Washington in 1872. Adobe Walls, the Red River War and Palo Duro Canyon, where the Army killed more than a thousand horses. The surrender at Fort Sill, Quanah Parker's second life, and the Comanche code talkers of World War Two. No image in this video is a reconstruction or AI-generated: every one is an archival photograph. Portraits by Curtis and Rinehart were staged, and the video says so. Full credits for every image (author, license and link) in the pinned comment. Music composed for this video. 0:00 Faces of the Comanche 2:00 Lords of the Southern Plains 5:25 The Captive: Cynthia Ann Parker 7:13 Their Allies, the Kiowa 10:19 Washington, 1872 13:09 The Last War, 1874 15:05 Surrender 16:49 Quanah's Second Life 19:06 The Code Talkers and the End