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The Comancheros were primarily Mexican traders in northern and central New Mexico Territory who made their living by trading with the nomadic Great Plains Indian tribes, in northeastern New Mexico and West Texas. Comancheros were so named because the Comanches, in whose territory they traded, were considered their best customers. They traded manufactured goods (tools and cloth), flour, tobacco, and bread for hides, livestock and slaves from the Comanche. As the Comancheros did not have sufficient access to weapons and gunpowder, there is disagreement about how much they traded these with the Comanche.
The Comanchero were primarily Hispanic traders from New Mexico.
Comanchero or The Comancheros may refer also to:
- "Comanchero" (song), by Moon Ray (Raggio Di Luna)
- Comanchero Motorcycle Club, an Australian outlaw gang
- The Comancheros (film), a 1961 Western
"Comanchero" is a song by Raggio Di Luna (Moon Ray). It was written by Italian record producer Aldo Martinelli and Simona Zanini and released as a single in 1984 on Discotto S.A.S. It became a hit single in several European countries, reaching number 2 in Austria, number 3 in West Germany, number 4 in Switzerland, number 5 in France and number 17 in Italy. In 1997, the song was covered and released as a single by Robin Cook.
Usage examples of "comanchero".
Our Comanchero friends promised him a beautiful young blond white woman.
It would seem that each of the trio of men who under-took that fateful journey out onto the Comanchero so long ago, pos-sessed such a bag.
East, at school, when my mother began raiding the MacLeans with her Comanchero allies.
No one has ever directly accused old Joseph of having been a Comanchero, but some people wondered why only three of eight able sons went to the Civil War and why there was Comanche trouble in the south where there had never been any.
The little portrait looked as bright and as fresh as it had years ago when his father had bartered it from an unsavory comanchero who said he had taken it from a dead Indian.