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Cynthia Ann Parker: The Story of Her Capture: At the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker's Fort; of Her Quarter of a Century Spent Among the Comanches, As the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona and of Her Recapture At the Battle of Pease River

ByJames T. DeShields

In the month of June, 1884, there appeared in the columns of the Forth Worth Gazette an advertisement signed by the Comanche chief, Quanah Parker, and dated from the reservation near Fort Sill, in the Indian Territory, inquiring for a photograph of his late mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, which served to revive interest in a tragedy which has always been enveloped in a greater degree of mournful romance and pathos than any of the soul-stirring episodes of our pioneer life, so fruitful of incidents of an adventurous nature.

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Publication Date
Nov 12, 2012
Language
English
ISBN
9781300385509
Category
Biographies & Memoirs
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): James T. DeShields

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EPUB

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