He later was left to die after he contracted smallpox during a Comanche raid into Mexico.
Then after a series of Comanche raids led by Red Young Man, where much stock was taken and a few hunters killed, the game changed.
The hunters later declared this was the last Comanche raid in Texas.
Except for the new soldiers there was scarcely a man in the troop who had not lost loved ones in the Comanche raids.
In the 1840s, Comanche raids became larger, more deadly, and penetrated deeply into Mexico.
The family set up home but soon they are facing Comanche raids and all sorts of problems.
Ford considered his attack, and the entire campaign, a just response to the Comanche raids on settlers.
Gouyen's first husband was killed in a Comanche raid in the 1870s.
The construction had been hampered by numerous Comanche raids, but after its completion, all settlers relocated to that location.
Ford's reason for this was simple: Comanche raids were brutal in their treatment of settlers.