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279 - Comanche Quanah Parker

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Command Cheese and the Treaty Talks

In 1839, a group of state militia tried to sneak up on a command cheese camp on foot, leaving their horses behind. The command cheese and militia fought back and forth with massacres and attacks on settlers. Despite the back and forth, the command cheese held onto pretty much their entire territory south of the Red River in the 1840s. In April 1846, an Indian agent went to a command cheese ban to request treaty talks. These would be the first treaty talks between the command cheese and the U.S., which Texas had just become a part of.

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