![]() ![]() ![]() They grow so widely in the Texas fields, that from a distance it looks like a misty blue carpet: I only saw a picture of beautiful bluebonnets for the first time a few months ago. ![]() “their early life in Texas before it became impossible for these brave people to share the land with the settlers and they were expelled or had to flee.” It honours the Comanche People and their culture. The author Tomie dePaola collected as many sources as he could, before retelling this tale for himself. This is now the name which is familiar to most people. When white settlers moved to what we now call Texas, they termed the flower “bluebonnet”, as it reminded them of the bonnets worn by many of the white women to protect them from the heat of the Texan sun. The Legend of the Bluebonnet is a folk tale of the Comanche People, to explain the flowering en masse of the lovely wild flower called variously Lupine, Buffalo Clover, Wolf Flower, and “El Conejo” (“the rabbit”) in Texas, every Spring. ![]()
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