Mexico, Governor Mendinueta learned from a Comanche captive that “a barbarian has raised himself up among that nation with the appearance and accouterments of those of a little king.” This man, Cuerno Verde (Green Horn), was said to have “near his person a guard of armed men, pages who serve him when he mounts and dismounts from his horse, holding a canopy or shade of buffalo skins for him in which he takes his seat.”
