This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Fall of Parker's Fort in 1836 recovered in timeline tale
A long retrospective recounts Cynthia Ann Parker’s capture in 1836, her years with the Comanches, and the later discovery of her as Cynthia Ann Parker. It traces Lawrence Sullivan Ross’s 1858 pursuit, the capture of a Comanche woman identified as Parker, and the eventual return of Parker’s children, including Quanah Parker, to Texan settlements and their lives thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cynthia Ann Parker
Earl van Dorn
United States Dragoons
Fort Belknap
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
van Dorn
Wichita Mountains
Ross
Wichita
Wichita River
Buffalo Hump
Lizzie
California
United States
Winfield Scott
Sam Houston
Parker County
United States Cavalry
N. G. Evans
Camp Cooper
Palo Pinto County
Jack Cureton
Cedar Mountains
Pease River
Cureton
Thomas Killiher
Sommerville
Mahee
Austin
Killiher
Sublett
Waco
Pease
Parker
Issac Parker
Tarrant County
John Henry Brown
N. CC. Raymond
Council of Chiefs
Cynthia Ann
Quanah Parker
Wichita Falls
Indian Territory