Wild Spanish cattle were easily acquired with a rope - within a year we had a hundred head. Hogs and mustang horses were also for the taking. There were deer, turkey, bear, squirrel, the occasional buffalo, turtles and fish from the river, ducks, plums and mustang grapes, bee trees and persimmons - the country was rich with life the way it is rotten with people today. The only problem was keeping your scalp attached.
Philipp MeyerUnlike the white, billions of whom shared the same handful of names, all interchangeable in the end, a Comanche name lived and died with a single person.
Philipp MeyerI have always found it interesting that white children take so quickly to Indian ways, while Indian children, when brought to be raised in white families, never take to it at all.
Philipp MeyerOf course you wanted your children to have it better than you had. But at what point was it not better at all?
Philipp MeyerThere is nothing wrong with my father: he is the natural. The problem is those like myself, who hoped we might rise from our instinctive state. Who hoped to go beyond our nature.
Philipp Meyerbut I rarely did anything I didn't feel like doing, and maybe this was the main difference between the whites and the Comanches, which was the whites were willing to trade all their freedom to live longer and eat better, and the Comanches were not willing to trade any of it.
Philipp MeyerThe blood that ran through history would fill every river and ocean, but despite all the butchery, here you were.
Philipp MeyerIt had become clear to me that the lives of the rich and famous were not so differ from the lies of the Comanches: you did what you pleased and answered to no one.
Philipp MeyerPerhaps another great ice will come and grind all this into dust. Leaving no trace of our existence, as even fire does.
Philipp MeyerI had never known there were so many people on earth.
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