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Frontier Days of Texas: Captain Ross and the Nacona Fight
In 1860 a Ranger force under Capt. Ross pursued the Comanche chief Nacona after raids on Parker and Jack counties. A brutal engagement near Pease River ended with Nacona wounded and killed in hand to hand combat. The white captive Cynthia Ann Parker was identified among the aftermath, later returning with Major Parker to civilization. Quanah Parker later led the remnant of his tribe on a reservation and adopted his mother’s name.
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Witchita
Peta Nacona
Parker County
Jack County
M. T. Johnson
Ross
L. S. Ross
Sam Houston
Fort Belknap
Nacona
N. G. Evans
United States
Camp Cooper
Second Cavalry
Jack Cureton
Bosque County
Pease River
Captain Ross
Jack and
Parker
Tom Kelliheir
Captain More Ross
Tom
McLennan
Quanah
Quanah Parker
Squaw
Cynthia Anne Parker
Fort Parker
Isaac Parker
Weatherford
Major Parker
Cynthia Ann
Cynthia Ann Parker
Plains
Austin
John Henry Brown
N. C. Raymond
Leni Leoti
Preloch
Anderson County
Parker Burying Ground
Hardeman County
Medicine Lodge Creek
Pease