What Is The Transformation Of The Horse Athanas De Meziere

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The article "incredible transformation" written by S. C. Gwyenne, talks about the great transformation of the Comanche between the years of 1625 and 1750. because they started being pariah to be dominant and powerful. When they started to be powerful they never forget what others had done to them. The great change of the Comanche was due to the horse, because it was essential for the hunters. It was a new transformation for them a new “technology”. The conquistadors brought with them a perfect breed of horses, which were hybrids from Central Asia, North Africa, and Europe. This is how the Comanche started their implausible ascent. The Comanche encountered the horses between the seventeenth century, and no one knows how it happened. However all we know is that the Comanche understood the horses better than no one else. The Comanche were more adapted to the …show more content…

Athanas is also saying that they are skillful in horsemanship and they have a lot of territory Colonel Richard Dodge believed that the Comanche were the finest cavalry in the world. George Catlin saw the Comanche as incomparable horseman, because once they ride their horses they seem metamorphosed. Catlin also affirms that the Comanche are the most extraordinary horsemen of all of his travels. The Comanche had a stratagem of war, practiced by every young man in the tribe, and were he is able to drop himself to the side of his horse, to protect themselves from their enemy’s weapons, also they could carry their bow and shield and their long lance of 14 feet in length. The Comanche use twenty arrows by the time a soldier loads and fires one round of his weapon. Observers were amazed how the Comanche could break horses, they would lasso a wild horse, tighten the noose choking the horse and when the horse was almost dead, the choking lariat was slacked. The Comanche were brilliant with everything with