Walk spent four years in the war. He spent six years under carpetbagger rule trying …
"All these things-whisky, arms, and ammunition, steal- ing and murdering-have their origin in the comanchero trade."
"I doubt that," Walk said. "I figger some of it goes back to Texas cattlemen looking for grass, and some of it goes back to plain cussedness on the part of the Indians. It isn't all the fault of the comancheros."
— Rim of the Caprock (Gunsmoke Western) by Noel M. Loomis (Page 127)