Tag: Indian marker tree

Bob and Kelli Phillips’ Texas Country Reporter, Comanche Marker Trees

“Texas Country Reporter” has been a staple of Texas TV since 1972. Every week Bob & Kelli Phillips travel the backroads of Texas to find the people and places who make Texas one-of-a-kind. This channel features what we consider some of our best stories. Not every segment we film gets posted to YouTube, but we …Read More

Trees That Speak: Marked Trees That Revealed Resources to Nomadic Comanche Still Stand

Picture for Arterberry Texas Power Co-op article

BY JIMMY W. ARTERBERRY / SEPTEMBER 2018 The following article was written for Texas Co-op Power, an online community for members of Texas electric cooperatives. The use of trees to identify a location has always been important in the traditional life of the Comanche. In days of old, our ancestors would mark a tree, or …Read More