Carne Muerto

Carne Muerto
Born	1832 Edward's Plateau, Texas
Died	1860s unknown
Occupation	Chief
Known for	Comanche war chief

Carne Muerto (Tehcap ) (1832—1860s) was a Native American War Chief of the Quahadi band of the Comanche Indians.

He rose to fame first as a son of Santa Anna, and used that status to survive capture by John "Rip" Ford and his Texas Rangers. In 1850 he escaped Army custody, then became known as a ferocious war chief late in the 1850s for his relentless raiding of white settlements.

Born in 1832 to Comanche War Chief Santa Anna and one of his wives, Carne Muerto (translated from Comanche and Spanish as “Death Meat”; the more logical name in Spanish would be "Carne Muerta", which means "Dead Meat"), as he was known in Texas, and on the Comancheria, [1] ) grew up as part of the Penateka band of the Comanches. The Penateka, in the days of Buffalo Hump, Old Owl, and Santa Anna, up to the Great Raid, were the most numerous of the Comanche. But they had borne the brunt of the fighting, and disease finished what war had started. During the cholera epidemic of 1848-9, most of its remaining members died, and the band split up. His father dead, Carne Muerto and his mother went to live with the Quahadi band of the Comanche Indians. [2]

In June 1850, reported to be 18 years of age, Carne Muerto was captured by a Texas Rangers detachment led by John "Rip" Ford. According to the Rangers, Carne Muerto told the Rangers at once he was the son of Santa Anna, still a very well known and respected Peace Chief who had once been a War Chief second only to Buffalo Hump, and that if he was well treated the Rangers would be rewarded. (Carne Muerto prudently did not tell the Rangers that his father was dead, which he had to know, as he reportedly was there.) Ford, no lover of any Comanche, but believing Santa Anna was alive, and knowing well what he had once done in the border wars, was aware of the potential for disaster if Santa Anna's son was mistreated or killed while in captivity. Reportedly treated with kindness, the young warrior was held by the Rangers, and then by the Army, for almost a year before he escaped.

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