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• catalog abstract "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.".
• catalog contributor b12304715.
• catalog coverage "Texas History 19th century Biography.".
• catalog coverage "Texas History 19th century.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description "A must read for anyone with an interest in the far Southwest or Native American history.".
• catalog description "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. ".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-321) and index.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "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. ".
• catalog extent "xiii, 331 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Frontier blood.".
• catalog identifier "1585441368 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Frontier blood.".
• catalog isPartOf "Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 90".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "College Station : Texas A & M University Press,".
• catalog relation "Frontier blood.".
• catalog spatial "Southern States".
• catalog spatial "Southern States.".
• catalog spatial "Texas History 19th century Biography.".
• catalog spatial "Texas History 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "Texas".
• catalog spatial "Texas.".
• catalog subject "976.4/004974/00922 B".
• catalog subject "Comanche Indians Texas History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "F385 .E95 2001".
• catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Southern States.".
• catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Texas.".
• catalog subject "Indian captivities 19th century Personal narratives.".
• catalog subject "Indian captivities Texas.".
• catalog subject "Parker family.".
• catalog subject "Parker, Cynthia Ann, 1827?-1864.".
• catalog subject "Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911.".
• catalog subject "Pioneers Southern States Biography.".
• catalog subject "Pioneers Texas Biography.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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.".
• catalog title "Frontier blood : the saga of the Parker family / Jo Ella Powell Exley.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "Personal narratives. fast".
• catalog type "text".