 In offering this land for free, the new Texan-Americans were not being entirely candid.Whatever reasons they had, settlement of the Fisher–Miller Land Grant, as it came to be called, was neither quick nor easy, the reason being that it was situated in the middle of Comancheria, the name given to lands of the Comanche Native Americans, a major plains people.It was the hunting grounds of a division called the Penateka Comanches, then understandably hostile to intrusion.