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The Comanches aren't on there yet, as noted at the bottom, but their territory went from north of Colorado all the way down into mexico.
They actually are on there. Comanches were originally a subgroup of the shoshoni, who came down from wyoming area after mastering the horse. They call themselves the Nʉmʉnʉʉ, which you can see on the map at the eastern edge of the green shoshoni lands.
I didn't know that! Thank you.
I have no clue how it's received as a scholarly work, or by the Comanche themselves, but "Empire of the Summer Moon" is a fantastic book on the rise and fall of the Comanches. The long story short is that they captured feral horses lost by the Spanish, trained to be insanely good at riding, rearing, and fighting off of horses. They then took to the great plains as nomadic bison hunters. There were never really that many of them, but they controlled a huge area as basically the mongols of the great plains.
That's what I read too - it was a fantasticly interesting book.