It's a Comanche, but not a Comanche...

[dfreeman616]

 

Comanche Code Talkers

I thought that was based of the Navajo language?

[dfreeman616]

revolver Antiguo Comanche

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9665943

[shelbyluvv]

 

Camanche pop up trailer.

[ECnVA]

 

Reading is fundamental...get hooked on phonix!!!!!

[Pete M]

Some creative finds so far. :D

 

Haven't a clue what this is for, but apparently it monitors and controls something. :dunno:

[FitchVA]

[Dark Side]

Nice! - the Comanche casting couch! :brows:

 

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[fiatslug87]

Gotta love Google Images

[TNT]

 

http://www.comanchelivestockexchange.com/

 

Comanche Livestock Exchange is dedicated to serving the large and small cattle producer. Our auction sale starts at 12:00 noon every Saturday (with the exception of holiday's). We begin with sheep & goats, then move on to the cows. Cattle sold include: Bred Cows, Packer Cows, Replacement Cows, Cow / Calf Pairs, Bulls, Yearling Steers & Heifers, Bottle Calves, and even the occasional Donkey or Llama. We also offer a wide array of services including: Catch Services, Hauling, Portable Penning, Problem Cow Removal, & General Livestock Working. Not sure how to market your cattle? We offer several options including: Live Auction Market, Private Treaty Sales, and/or Online Sales. Stop in or give us a call and see if we can be of service to your livestock operation.

[SuperWade2]

[BLHTAZ]

[dfreeman616]

[87Warrior]

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[Whamm]

This could be used in lake above.

[TNT]

 

http://www.comanchestallion.com/

[fiatslug87]

[1bolt]

This almost feels like cheating but I think it's the ultimate, not a Comanche but

is a Comanche:

[Pete M]

A couple of you stole my ideas so I had to dig a bit deeper. :idea:

 

[jpnjim]

Iris:

Comanche Winter-(Jim Hedgecock-2003)-Sdlg. F-69-W-TB-34"-M - There are a lot of good white irises already on the market, but our customers have been going tothis seedling wanting us to introduce it. When we entered it in the Pony Express Iris Society show this spring and got best seedling in show, we decided to put it on the market. The wide pure white florets have just a touch of yellow at the hafts. Form is heavily ruffled with superb substance. Beards are white with yellow tips. The foliage is extremely healthy. Show stalks with a bud count of eight. Mild sweet fragrance. Agape Love X Unknown. $7.50

 

 

http://www.comancheacresiris.com/2003_introductions.htm

[yellaheep]

A very rare '84 AMC Smart Car......... Or half a 'manche.......... :dunno:

 

:D

 

[fiatslug87]

[TNT]

Friday, March 6, 2009

Comanche Station

 

 

The final film of Budd Boetticher's acclaimed Ranown cycle — the seven Westerns he made with actor Randolph Scott — is Comanche Station, a typically solid, straightforward venture that recycles and shuffles around plot elements from the series' previous film, Ride Lonesome. In both films, Scott plays a man who's initially mistaken for a bounty hunter of sorts, riding the territory trying to strike it rich by trading in people, but who is actually on a private mission of his own. In the aftermath of an Indian attack, he falls in with a pretty woman and a group of no-good outlaws who want to relieve him of his bounty and his life. The two films share these basic elements, though the later film casts them in a new light. In Comanche Station, Scott's Jefferson Cody isn't bringing in a murderer to be hanged, but rescuing Nancy Lowe (Nancy Gates) from the Comanche tribe who kidnapped her. Mrs. Lowe's husband had announced a $5000 reward for any man who brought her back to him, and naturally this attracts the attention of the rough outlaw Ben (Claude Akins) and his two younger partners, Frank (Richard Rust) and Dobie (Skip Homeier). Cody, of course, wasn't in it for the money; he'd lost his wife to the Indians ten years before, and had been looking for her ever since, going after any women he heard about in the increasingly slender hope of someday finding his own missing wife.

 

When attacking Indians throw Cody and Mrs. Lowe in with the three outlaws, the trip back to her hometown becomes a tense journey through some of the most astoundingly beautiful vistas to be featured in any of Boetticher's films. With the threat of Indians signaled in the hills by their pillars of black smoke and bird calls in the surrounding woods, Cody finds himself trapped between the Indians and the potential treachery of his riding partners. It hardly helps that he served as Ben's commanding officer in the army, and presided over the other man's dishonorable discharge. There's a lot of bad blood in their past, though Ben seems to foster a grudging respect for the honorable, straight-talking Cody — just not enough respect to dissuade him from taking a shot at that $5000.

 

 

Despite the high stakes, the film has a meandering, lazy feel completely at odds with the dramatic tension at its core. Perhaps Boetticher's defining characteristic as a director of Westerns is his recognition that plot is one of the least important aspects of these kinds of films. He often seems indifferent to concerns like pacing or narrative details or dramatic content, as epitomized by the way this film casually riffs on the plot of Ride Lonesome, essentially retelling the story with slightly different motivations driving the characters. His sense of pacing is deliberate and calm, following up a frenzied Indian attack with a long sequence of dialogue-free shots in which the group's train of horses winds across various Western landscapes. All of Boetticher's films have room for such moments, time to stop and appreciate the pictorial beauty of the surroundings, but this film in particular is as much a celebration of the land where it was made as it is an action story. Boetticher bookends the film with shots of the same rocky, barren terrain, like a strangely beautiful alien landscape, boulders piled high on top of one another. And his camera frequently sweeps across the widescreen vistas his characters are riding through; his takes are often extended enough to follow Cody and his group across a very large patch of land, slowly panning along with the trotting horses.

 

Boetticher also frequently slows the narrative down in order to allow for moments of unexpected humor, puncturing the deadly seriousness of so many other Hollywood Westerns. Frank and Dobie certainly fulfill the role of comic relief, particularly in the scene where Dobie impresses his friend by proving that he can read — not "books or newspapers," but simple signs at least. Later, after a long and heartfelt conversation in which Dobie describes his father's longstanding advice that a man has to "amount to something," Dobie concludes by lamenting, "it's a shame: he never did amount to anything." This dim-witted pair is comical but also kind of sad, in that they're obviously with the ruthless Ben only because they have no other real options, no chance to make anything of themselves unless they're holding a gun. Boetticher's comedy is never mean-spirited, never aimed at completely ridiculing or cutting down its target; there is always complexity and depth even to Boetticher's comic foils.

 

He even directs his wit at Scott himself, in a scene where Cody, after being wounded in an attack, is treated by Mrs. Lowe. She pours some harsh liquor on his leg, warning him ahead of time that it's going to hurt, but instead of taking it with the expected stoicism and steely reserve, perhaps emitting a quick rush of breath, Cody whoops and throws his hands in the air, exclaiming in pain and then jumping around on his one good leg for a while, shaking the wounded one around to soothe it. It's a startling moment because it cuts so directly against the archetype of the tough, squint-eyed Western hero. Under Boetticher's direction, Scott's hero can be funny, flawed, even silly, can feel pain: he's no stoic superman with a gunbelt, and all of Boetticher's films with the actor feature at least one moment like this. Boetticher loves Western tropes, and films like this revel in the typical lore of the West, but he loves undermining and tweaking these archetypal elements just as much. It's this sensibility, this love of the Western coupled with the desire to open up the genre, to explore its more unusual facets, that makes Comanche Station, like all of Boetticher's Westerns, such a fascinating exemplar of the genre.

[Pete M]

Dang it. TNT beat me to it. :shake: Well, here's the movie poster anyways. :D

 

 

And my backup for today:

 

[Geonovast]

 

This is starting to get hard...

[jtdesigns]

 

 

 

Comanche Springs Pupfish (Cyprinodon elegans)

 

Picture of Comanche Springs Pupfish (Cyprinodon elegans)

© Photo courtesy Dave Schleser

 

 

Texas Status

Endangered

U.S. Status

Endangered, Listed 3/11/1967

Description

Comanche Springs pupfish grow to about 2 inches in length. Males have a bright shiny stripe on the side to attract females

Life History

Like other pupfish, these fish are adapted to harsh desert conditions. They are able to tolerate a wide range of temperatures and salinities (saltiness). Their diet consists of algae and small invertebrates. They live 1-2 years.

Habitat

Comanche Springs pupfish habitat requires flowing water from desert springs.

Distribution

Distribution of the Comanche Springs Pupfish (Cyprinodon elegans)This rare species is found only in spring-fed waters near Balmorhea, Texas.

Other

Comanche Springs Pupfish live in water flowing from west Texas springs. They used to be found in Comanche Springs near Ft. Stockton, but these fish died when the springs went dry in 1955. Now they are found only in the springs near Balmorhea. These pupfish are endangered because many of the large springs in west Texas are drying up. More water is being pumped from the ground than is being replaced by rainfall. A desert oasis has been built near Balmorhea to provide habitat for the fish. Visit Balmorhea State Park to learn more about the pupfish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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