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Author Exley, Jo Ella Powell, 1940-

Title Frontier blood : the saga of the Parker family / Jo Ella Powell Exley
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : illustrations
Series The centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 90
Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 90
Contents Part I. Daniel -- 1. A Poor Sinner -- 3 -- 2. The Wrong Road -- 11 -- 3. Plain and Unpolished -- The Diamond in the Rough State -- 24 -- Part II. Rachel -- 4. Father, Forgive Them -- 41 -- 5. Vengeance Is Mine -- 61 -- 6. How Checkered Are the Ways of Providence -- 82 -- Part III. James W. -- 7. The Tongue of Slander -- 97 -- 8. The House of God -- 106 -- 9. Sundry Charges -- 113 -- 10. Called Home -- 122 -- Part IV. Cynthia Ann -- 11. Miss Parker -- 133 -- 12. The Hand of Savage Invasion -- 144 -- 13. The Long-Lost Relative -- 165 -- 14. Thirsting for Glory -- 183 -- 15. It Was Quanah -- 202 -- 16. So Many Soldiers -- 219 -- 17. Blood upon the Land -- 231 -- 18. I Lived Free -- 252
Summary A must read for anyone with an interest in the far Southwest or Native American history
The descendants of Elder John Parker were a strange and often brilliant family who may have changed the course of Texas and Western history. Their obsession with religion and their desire for land took them from Virginia to Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, and finally Texas. From their midst came Cynthia Ann, taken captive by Comanches as a young girl and recaptured as an adult to live in grief among her birth family until she died. From their line too came her son, Quanah Parker, last of the great Comanche war chiefs--and first of their great peace leaders. Although the broad outlines of the stories of Cynthia Ann and Quanah are familiar, Jo Ella Powell Exley adds a new dimension by placing them in the context of the stubborn, strong, contentious Parker clan, who lived near and dealt with restive Indians across successive frontiers until history finally brought them to Texas, where their fate changed
Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, including several first-person stories, the author follows Cynthia Ann through her life in the Indian camp & eventually her recapture by her birth family. She also tells the dramatic story of Quanah Parker through childhood, battle, surrender, & reservation life. This narrative is filled with authentic flavor and sets straight a story that has sometimes been distorted. It offers new insight if not a definitive interpretation of Cynthia Ann Parker's last years, providing a more complex picture of the 'white' years of a woman who had matured among the Comanches since the age of nine. Among the documents from which Exley draws are a short autobiography of Daniel Parker, Rachel Parker Plummer's two narratives of her Indian captivity, James Parker's account of his search for Rachel & the other captives, & several autobiographical accounts Quanah dictated to his friends
Exley tells a compelling story and gives rich character insights into the extended Parker family. But she also does more: she gives a feeling of what it was really like to live on the frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. -- Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-321) and index
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Subject Parker family.
Parker, Cynthia Ann, 1827?-1864.
Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911.
SUBJECT Parker, Cynthia Ann, 1827?-1864 fast
Parker family fast
Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911 fast
Subject Pioneers -- Texas -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
Comanche Indians -- Texas -- History -- 19th century
Indian captivities -- Texas
Pioneers -- Southern States -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life -- Southern States
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Comanche Indians
Frontier and pioneer life
Indian captivities
Pioneers
SUBJECT Texas -- History -- 19th century -- Biography
Subject Southern States
Texas
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001002241
ISBN 1585449482
9781585449484