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CYNTHIA ANN PARKER


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Cynthia Ann Parker.

CYNTHIA ANN PARKER.


THE STORY OF HER CAPTURE

At the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker’s Fort; of her Quarter of a CenturySpent Among the Comanches, as the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona;and of her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, byCaptain L. S. Ross, of the Texian Rangers.


—BY—

JAMES T. DeSHIELDS,

Author of “Frontier Sketches,” Etc.


“Truth is Stranger than Fiction.”


ILLUSTRATED.


ST. LOUIS:

Printed for the Author,

1886.


Copyright 1886 by
JAMES T. DESHIELDS.
All Rights Reserved.

CHAS. S. WOODWARD
Printing and Book Manufacturing Co.,
ST. LOUIS.


DEDICATED
(By Permission)
—TO—
GENL. L. S. ROSS,
—OF—
WACO, TEXAS.


PREFACE.

In the month of June, 1884, there appeared in thecolumns of the Forth Worth Gazette an advertisementsigned by the Comanche chief, Quanah Parker, anddated from the reservation near Fort Sill, in the IndianTerritory, enquiring for a photograph of his latemother, Cynthia Ann Parker, which served to reviveinterest in a tragedy which has always been envelopedin a greater degree of mournful romance and pathosthan any of the soul-stirring episodes of our pioneerlife, so fruitful of incidents of an adventurous nature.

From the valued narratives kindly furnished us byVictor M. Ross, Major John Henry Brown and Gen.L. S. Ross, supplemented by the Jas. W. Parker bookand copious notes from Hon. Ben. F. Parker, togetherwith most of the numerous partial accounts of the fallof Parker’s Fort and subsequent relative events, publishedduring the past fifty years; and after a carefulinvestigation and study of the whole, we have laboriouslyand with much pains-taking, sifted out and evolvedthe foregoing narrative of plain, unvarnished facts,which form a part of the romantic history of Texas.

In the preparation of our little volume the thanks ofthe youthful author are due to Gen. L. S. Ross, ofviWaco; Major John Henry Brown of Dallas; Gen.Walter P. Lan

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