Was Quanah Parkers Mother Abducted in Ohio Instead of Texas?
” Quanah Parker Quanah Parker was the son of Peta Nacono, a Comanche chief, and Cynthia Ann Parker, who had been abducted by Comanches when she was nine years old. Cynthia was adopted into the tribe, and as a teenager, she married Peta Nacono. From an early age, Quanah distinguished himself as a horseman and warrior. He also learned to hate the white man after Texas Rangers took his mother from him, forcibly returning her to her relatives (she died four years later), and after the death of his father in combat. When Quanah’s brother succumbed to a white man’s disease, the young warrior joined the most aggressive of Commanche bands, the Kwahadi and, by 1867, was a war chief among them. Quanah Parker With the successful conclusion of the Texas War for Independence, the settlers became overconfident and relaxed their security measures. On May 19, 1836, when a war party composed principally of Comanches and Kiowas suddenly appeared in the clearing before the fort, most of the men were work
