Toward the close of the eighteenth century the Osage and Kansa encountered the comanche and perhaps other Shoshonean peoples, and their course was turned southward; and in 1817, according to Brown, the Great Osage and Little Osage were chiefly on Osage and Arkansas rivers, in four villages.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
In the little inland villages of stone cabins a pastoral air prevails; but one occasionally witnesses novel scenes and unique performances, such as small groups of peasantry dancing after a style erratic enough to suit a comanche Indian.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
They walked down to the corner with us, I remember, and I talked with Cander, the Polykon professor, who had always seemed to me to be the embodiment of comanche cruelty and cunning.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch