In the 1800s, if captured by the Apache or Comanche and chosen to be kept alive, captives often underwent initiation rituals. One such practice, described in The Boy Captives, involved using a large ...

November is Native American Heritage Month. Indigenous peoples lived in what’s now the Lubbock area, or the Llano Estacado, for hundreds and hundreds of years. It’s a history many locals may know some ...

Comanche Jack Stilwell worked as a teamster on the Santa Fe Trail, hunted buffalo on the southern plains, and participated in the famous Battle of Beecher Island all before the age of 19 years of age.