Comanche Resources
Compiled by Barbara Goodin

Note: We have listed resources for information about Comanche people.  Most of the books/documents can be found in the Lawton Public Library Research Room, Lawton OK, which participates in the inter-library loan system.  If you cannot find a particular item in your local library, please inquire about inter-library loan.  Other sources may be bookstores and on-line bookstores.

BOOKS:

1901 Family Record Book: Kiowa, Comanche Apache Tribes.  Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1901.

1995 Centennial History Book: Post Oak Mission and Post Oak Mennonite Brethren Church. Taylor Publishing, 1995.

A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma, by Muriel Wright.  University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.

American Indian Leaders, edited by R. David Edmunds.  University of Nebraska, 1980.

An Index To Area Indian Cemeteries (of Comanche County, Oklahoma), by Barbara and Kenneth Goodin, 1991.

Being Comanche, by Morris W. Foster.  University of Arizona Press, 1991.

Border Comanches, translated by Marc Simmons.  Stagecoach Press, 1967.

Carbine & Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill, by William S. Nye. University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.

Comanche and Kiowa Captives in Oklahoma and Texas, by Hugh D. Corwin.  Cooperative Publishing Co., 1959.

Comanche Barrier to Southern Plains Settlement, by Rupert N. Richardson.  1933.

Comanche Belief and Rituals (thesis), by Daniel J. Gelo. University of  New Jersey, Rutgers, 1986.

Comanche Code Talkers of World War II, The, by Dr. William C. Meadows.  University of Texas Press,  2003.

Comanche, Kiowa & Apache Obituaries, by Sam DeVenney. Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1999.

Comanche Land, by J. Emmor Harston

Comanches in the New West, 1895-1908: Historical Photographs, text by Stanley Noyes with the assistance of Daniel J. Gelo, forward by Larry McMurtry.  University of Texas at Austin, 1999.

Comanches: Lords of the South Plains, by Wallace and Hoebel. University of Oklahoma Press. 1986.

Descendents of Titchywy, by Delores Titchywy Sumner.  Tahlequah OK,  2000.

Descendents of Wis-sis-che, by Delores Titchywy Sumner.  Tahlequah  OK, 2000.

Deyo Mission Cemetery (Lawton, OK), by Barbara and Kenneth Goodin. 1994.

Doris Duke Oral History Collection, Western History Collection, University of Oklahoma libraries, Norman OK.  (*interviews with several Comanche Indians during 1967-1972.  Online at http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/duke/.

Indian Research and History, with Biographies, Book Reviews and Cemeteries, by Barbara Morris Goodin.  E-mail author at bgoodin@tds.net for ordering information.

Indians Taxed and Indians Not Taxed in the U.S., 1890 (government document)

Index to the Comanche, Kiowa & Apache Obituaries, compiled by Paul Follett. Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1999.

Issues In Penatuhkah Comanche Ethnohistory (thesis), by Linda Pelon. University of Texas at Arlington, 1993.

Kiowa Agency Mission Schools of Oklahoma, 1881-1914, compiled by Helen Bolt. Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1988.

Kiowa, Apache and Comanche Military Societies, by William Meadow. University of Texas Press, 1999.

Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Fort Sill Apache, Wichita, Caddo and Delaware Indian Birth and Death Rolls, 1924-1932.  Mountain Press, 1996.

Los Comanches: The Horse People, by Stanley Noyes.  University of New Mexico Press, 1993.

Numa-nu (The Comanche People): Fort Sill Indian School Experience, compiled by Delores Titchywy Sumner. 1981.

Otipoby Comanche Cemetery Centennial 1888-1988 (Lawton OK), edited by Barbara Goodin. Comanche Printing, 1988.

Otipoby Comanche Cemetery, Supplement, by Gladys Narcomey. 1989.

Quanah, The Serpent Eagle, by Paul Foreman.  Northland Press, 1983.

Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief, by William T. Hagen. University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Quanah Parker and His People, by Bill Neeley

Relocation of Post Oak Cemetery, Fort Sill OK, by Barbara Goodin. Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1993.

Sanapia: Comanche Medicine Woman, by David Jones.  Waveland Press, 1972.

Santa Anna (thesis), by Linda Pelon.

Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds, by Elizabeth John. Texas A&M Press, 1975.

Texas Indian Papers, edited by Winfrey & Day (5 volume set). Texas State Historical Association, Austin TX, 1995.

The Story of Comanche Peaks, Landmark of Hood County (TX), by Vance Maloney.

The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II, by William C. Meadows.  University of Texas Press, 2003.

The Comanche, by Willard H. Rollings.

The Comanche and His Literature (thesis), by Herwana Becker Barnard. University of Oklahoma, 1941.

The Comanches, A History: 1706-1875, by Thomas W. Kavanaugh.  University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker, by Bill Neeley.  John Wiley and Sons, 1995.

United States/Comanche Relations: The Reservation Years, by W. T. Hagan. Yale University Press, 1976.