Comanche Fan Club

"A run-in with a camp of Comanche Native Americans and the spotting of several stolen horses leads to one vaquero being held captive and negotiations between Mr. Cooke and the Comanche leader. "

This is from the show Texas Ranch House which is a PBS reality TV show where they recreate the experience of folks living as cattle rachers in the mid-1800's. This is a sequal to a similar show they did on people living in Puritanical times. In that show half the cast walked out...the PBS/NPR women on the show couldn't handle playing a subserviant roles nor having to live with God, and the men were too much a bunch of pussies to get a grip on the women.

This new show is picking up where the last one left off.

But the episode that I quoted above is the best. The shows producers thought it would be cool to include some native americans as part of the production. What they failed to calculate was the fact that while white people are over the whole conquiering the country thing...Native American's are still a little pissed off. I suppose having your race slaughtered and smallpox shoved in your blankets will leave a sour taste in your mouth. Who'd a thunk it ?

So it's a riot. These Comanches are all like, "sure well do your show" and then immediately set about extracting just a little bit of payback. They stole some horses...and then they kidnapped a dude. To PBS's credit...or maybe not....they did not intevene. The white people on the show were wondering..." Is this staged ? Is this still part of the show ?" but the Comanches were NOT exactly fucking around.

Their response was, " well let's put it this way..... If this was 1860, we wouldn't be talking about trading your cattle for your cowboy....mostly we'd be talking about which one of us got each of your daughters after we killed you all " and then everyone turned around and took a good long look at the chicks.

Then after some laughter...where the whiteys weren't laughing too much, the chief added, " come to think of it, it's a good thing that these cameras are around !" AHAHHAHAHHAHA.

I don't think anyone slept too well at the Ranch house that night.

I see that the Comanches are not included in any future episodes. I think that people can only handle so much reality in their reality TV.