Cynthia Ann Parker is the most famous Indian captive in American history. Quanah Parker, son of Cynthia Ann Parker, in full headdress. He was a Comanche chief. She was born in Illinois, around ...

Long ago on the prairies of East Central Illinois lived a young, blond-haired, blue-eyed girl named Cynthia Ann Parker. She and her family settled along the Embarras River in the ...

That link to Cynthia Ann Parker and her struggle to navigate between two worlds remains today in many of the dozens — perhaps hundreds — of Parker descendants scattered throughout Fort Worth ...

The Culture Still Searching How the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, Texas’s most famous Indian captive, became one of the greatest westerns of all time.

Quanah Parker is considered to be the last chief of the Comanches. He was the oldest child of Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker.

Cynthia Ann Parker was nine when a Comanche snatched her from her East Texas home in 1836. Yet throughout her life as her captor's wife she remained strong, brave, and devoted to her husband and ...

As a significant element of the Texas mystique, the story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah Parker constitute a sensational chapter in Texas history. The Comanche leader Quanah Parker was ...

The Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker traveling photo exhibit is coming to Liberty, Texas on Aug. 25. The Texas Lakes Trail Program is sending the exhibit around the state, and the Liberty County ...

Marybeth Little Weston, 1927-2015, grew up in the right place and the right time to be captivated by the story of Cynthia Ann Parker. That place was Wichita Falls. The book is "The Comanche with ...

Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker are important names in U.S. frontier history, promoters say, adding that much can be learned from the dramatic story of these individuals.

Quanah Parker is considered to be the last chief of the Comanches. He was the oldest child of Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker.

Baldwin Parker, Cynthia Ann Parker’s grandson, brought members of the Comanche to Fort Worth to see the Swift & Co. plant about 1920.