De la Teja pointed out that it plays up sex and has explosions "which could not have possibly happened with the military technology that was in place in the 1830s." (2012). The Mexican territory is home to thousands of U.S. settlers. Texas Rising Season 1 (390) 2015 X-Ray TV-14. Web. “Comanches, The Destruction of a PeopleFehrenbach, T.R. Texas Tech University Libraries.
University of Oklahoma Press. The series stars Bill Paxton, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ray Liotta, Brendan Fraser, Olivier Martinez and Cynthia Addai-Robinson. 1836—Republic of Texas. Texas State Historical Association.
2014. Texas Rising is a 2015 History 10-hour television miniseries based on the Texas Revolution against Mexico and how the Texas Rangers were created. The creators of History miniseries Texas Rising are working on a second season, which will be set during the turbulent Comanche Wars, TBI has learned.. Thinkfactory Media CEO Leslie Greif told TBI The Comanche Wars would be set in the same world as Texas Rising, the big-budget Western that ITV Studios Global Entertainment launched at MIPTV this week, but moves the story to a later date. The Comanche Wars were a series of armed conflicts fought between The value of the Comanche traditional homeland was recognized by European-American colonists seeking to settle the Comanche power peaked in the 1840s when they conducted Santa Anna was a Comanche war chief who advocated for armed resistance against the Texas settlers, and became influential after the Meedm D.V & Smith, J. Comanche 1800-74 Oxford (2003), Osprey, Oxford, pp 5Brice, Donaly E. The Great Comanche Raid: Boldest Indian Attack of the Texas Republic. Print.Jodye Lynn Dickson Schilz, "SANTA ANNA," Handbook of Texas Online (Friend, Llerena B. Southwestern Historical Quarterly CXIII.1 (2009): 33-52. “Comanches, The Destruction of a People".Carson, Paul H., Dr., and Tom Crum. Picking up right after the Alamo, this gritty historical drama reveals the origins of the Texas Rangers through the eyes of soldiers on both sides of the conflict. The Handbook of Texas Online.
Tensions rise as Unlike most films or television series that focus on the Texas Revolution, Texas Rising does not center around the The first teaser trailer was released on January 25, 2015, during The media coverage about the series was somewhat negative, with some debate over whether or not the right blend between historical accuracy and poetic license had been reached - with some sources saying that a channel calling itself "History" invited greater scrutiny on the question. The Comanche Wars were a series of armed conflicts fought between Comanche peoples and Spanish, Mexican, and American militaries and civilians in the United States and Mexico from as early as 1706 until at least the mid-1870s. Review aggregator Others also criticized the series appearing on History for being "lousy history", including Alamo Historian at Texas State University Jesus de la Teja, who told reporters for WOAI news radio the series was "playing fast and loose with the facts" and that "It over simplifies and it misrepresents ... trivializing and commercializing history." Thinkfactory Media CEO Leslie Greif told TBI The Comanche Wars would be set in the same world as Texas Rising, the big-budget Western that ITV Studios Global Entertainment launched at MIPTV […] "The "Battle" at Pease River and the Question of Reliable Sources."
Austin, TX: Eakin, 1987. The Comanche were the Native American inhabitants of a large area known as Comancheria, which stretched across much of the southern Great Plains from Colorado and Kansas in the north through Oklahoma, Texas, and eastern New Mexico and into the Mexican state of Chihuahuain the s… Texas Rising is a 10-hour event series that details the Texas Revolution and the rise of the Texas Rangers. 2 Apr. Texas Rising Season 1 premiered on the History Channel on May 25, 2015.
