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Projects by Aaron Kreltszheim | Comancheros

Comancheros

By:	Aaron Kreltszheim
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Added: 12/23/2011 9:52:39 PM

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Type:	Feature

Genre:	Western

Language:	English

Status:	Pre-Production

Description:	The Comancheros: Please don’t get this film confused with, John Wayne’s “The Comancheros” (1961). $5 million with USA theatrical distribution. full memorandums when asked for. Our screenplay gives you the history of the Comanchero in New Mexico Territory during the American Civil War, and what effect it actually had on the boarder towns of Texas. The events happened in history, some of the characters are fictional mixed with true people of the time. Even down to Lt. Charles Jennings of the Union Army outpost in Hatch and the traders / Comancheros, Casimero Romero and José P. Tafoya. Our main character, William T. (Bill) Hamilton was in actual fact an Indian fighter and frontiersman, semi retired, leaving his Trading Post in Montana to try the ranch life in Texas with an old friend - Now 41 years old, with a specially designed weapon never heard much in history. Created by Denver, Colorado firearms maker and designer, Morgan L. Rood. A cap and ball rifle, with three 45 caliber, 32 inch barrels on a swivel-breach, iron trim sights for each barrel and three wooden loading rods. In the time of single shot, this rifle gave a nice edge in any combat situation. The Comancheros were natives of northern and central New Mexico who conducted trade for a living with the nomadic plains tribes, often at designated areas in the Llano Estacado. They cut trails followed by traders and later ranchers and settlers. They were so named because the Comanches, in whose territory they traded, were considered their best customers. Their main bases were Anton Chico and Chaperito and from there, the trade goods were distributed to Santa Fe, Pecos, and Las Vegas New Mexico. Probably the most controversial aspect of the Comancheros' operations was the ransoming of captives. At first enterprising New Mexicans had bought only captive Indians for use as mine workers or servants, but as time went on they began accepting Mexican prisoners as well. Many traders reportedly made large profits from highborn captives they had ransomed from Comanches by holding them for a suitable "reward" from relatives in the settlements of Texas or northern Mexico or from American government officials. The Civil War momentarily left the Texas frontier practically defenseless and allowed the Indian raiders free access to livestock grazing in the Cross Timbers and Hill Country of central West Texas. Comancheros profited handsomely from this stock, much of it left unbranded as well as unattended, which they frequently traded to army posts, government Indian reservations, and ranchers for guns, ammunition, and whiskey to trade to the Indians. Noted traders like Casimero Romero, José P. Tafoya and Juan Trujillo maintained crude rock and adobe shelters at places like Anton Chito (on the Pecos River), Las Lenguas, south of Las Vegas, N.M. or Tecovas Springs. Union Army officers actually encouraged trade with the Comanche Indians to conduct a guerrilla campaign, as a way to bedevil Confederate Texas, while the New Mexico territory remained loyal to the Union. This story begins when a Comanche hunting party raids a small Confederate base, mainly run by volunteers in Llano Estacado, a known trade area for the Comanche and Comanchero. In the process, weapons and supplies need for the Confederacy to hold the boarder towns on New Mexico, prisoners were taken, not for ransom this time, but for slaves and prostitution to be sold to the mining companies in Arizona. With rumors in the surrounding towns that the Union Army was about to march on El Paso Texas, a young keen Texan, not yet enlisted in the confederacy, takes it upon himself to steal back the weapons. In the process, two known ranchers, who lost important property also, now search territory of New Mexico for the roaming Traders, Comancheros. In the twisted trail Hamilton and his hunting party seize what is rightfully theirs, they escape Casimero Romero, Comanchero leader, who is a very sma

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Script:	First Draft

Cast & Crew:	Camera and Electrical, Editor, Editorial, Production Assistant

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