Comanche reservation map
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Review by Ed Quillen
Juan Bautista de Anza – December 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine
Anza’s 1779 Comanche Campaign
by Ron Kessler
Second Edition
Published in 2001 by Adobe Village Press
ISBN 0-9644056-3-6
Decisive Battle – Anza and Cuerno Verde
by Wilfred O. Martinez
Published in 2001 by El Escritorio
ISBN 0962897493
JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANZA was one of the finest frontier commanders this continent ever produced, and he would be much more celebrated in American history if he had been born in Virginia or New York instead of Sonora, Mexico.
In most histories, he may be best known for founding the presidio that would become San Francisco, California, in the summer of 1776. But in our part of the world, at least in the pages of this magazine, Anza is celebrated for being the first person to write about the upper San Luis Valley, Poncha Pass, and the Salida area.
It happened in the late summer of 1779, after he had taken office as the governor of the Spanish colony of New Mexico and commander of its armed forces. Pueblos and farms along the
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Cuerno Verde
Colorado City in Pueblo County, Colorado — The American Mountains (Southwest)
Colorado
Photographed by James Hulse, July 10, 2021
1. Cuerno Verde Marker
Cuerno Verde. Colorado. In the 1700s, this area of southern Colorado became a significant cultural crossroads for the Indian tribes of the high plains. Apaches and Kiowas, Utes and Comanches all pressed in to take advantage of the abundant buffalo and other game. This caused a substantial amount of intertribal warfare that continued well into the 19th century. So intense was the struggle that even the name Comanche emerged from the Ute word "komantcia." meaning "anyone who wants to fight me all the time." , By the 1700s, this area also formed the most northern extremity of the Spanish empire. From Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico, Spanish soldiers, explorers, and clergy ventured north to draw the plains people into trading alliances, spread Christianity, and quell the destructive raids on settlements in the Upper Rio Grande Valley., After driving the Ute
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Cuerno Verde
Leader of the Comanche in the late 18th century
Cuerno Verde (died September 3, 1779) is the Spanish name for Green Horn aka Tavibo Naritgant, a Chief of the Comanche, likely of the Kotsoteka Comanche, in the late 18th century.
Life
Cuerno Verde ("Green Horn" in English), is the Spanish name given to Tavibo Naritgant ("Dangerous Man") because of the green tinted horn(s) that he wore on his head-dress in battle. The English translation of the Comanche name is "Dangerous Man."[1] His son inherited both the name and the distinctive head dress from the father, who was killed in combat against the Spanish at Ojo Caliente, in what is now New Mexico, in October 1768. [2]
As a young man, Tabivo Naritgant led a series of successful raids into Nuevo Mexico during the mid- to late 1770s. The Spanish Viceroy in New Spain noticed this threat to them, and offered Juan Bautista de Anza the governorship of Nuevo Mexico with instructions to deal with the various local Indians, including Tavibo Naritgant. De Anza moved to Nuevo Mexico and assum
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