hated for their tenacity and insatiable hunger for land. In
recollection, many years later, long after the Native American road had merged with that of the white man, he said
simply: “I take all men, go warpath to Texas.”
And Texas bled.
NOVEMBER 2015
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
See next month’s PCT for part 6 of The Disappeared.
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Comanche Chief Quanah Parker
Sources:
• The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of
Quanah Parker, Bill Neely, 1995, John Wiley and Sons,
Inc.
• geneology.com and other websites
• Handbook of Texas Online
• Last Days of the Comanches, S.C. Gwynne, May
2010 Texas Monthly
• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the
Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian
Tribe in American History, S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, 2010
• Other Internet sources