Born to Comanche horse culture in 1845 to a Chief of the Naconi Band and a mother, Cynthia Parker, who’d been captured as a girl by a raiding party in Texas. Quanah hunted the huge bison herds.

In 1871, the picturesque canyon was the site of an early battle between the US Army and Native American warriors led by Quanah Parker. Along with other Native American tribes, a band of Quahada ...

Indian scout Jim Read (Dana Andrews) is picked by his commander (John Litel) to set up a meeting between Comanche Chief Quanah Parker (Kent Smith) and a representative from Washington (Lowell ...

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