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About two years ago I read a new book just out titled, in part, "Empire of The Summer Moon . . . ." The book is a scholarly history of the Comanche domination of Texas from the 1830s until about 1875 when Colonel Ranald Mackenzie and his troops forced the last of the Comanches onto the reservation at Ft. Sill, OK and opened Texas for expansion by white settlers.
Prominent in the book was Quanah Parker, son of Cynthia Ann Parker, a young white girl who was captured by raiding Comanches in 1836 and later became the teenaged bride of a Comanche chief. Reading about Quanah and COL Mackenzie who fought battles in Blanco Canyon very near where I live now I became interested in Quanah, the last chief of the Comanches.
Yesterday, Saturday morning two other Goldwingers and myself rode from Crosby and Dickens County north to Cache, OK to tour Quanah's home which is deteriorating badly but is still intact at the former Eagle Trading Post Amusement Park at Cache, OK. We toured the house, talked a little history with the owner/tourguide, then spent the night in Lawton, OK.
This morning we visited Ft. Sill and located the burial place of Quanah Parker, his mother Cynthia Ann Parker, and his sister Prairie Flower. Quanah is buried in a position of respect in what was the post cemetery in the late 1800s with a large and impressive grave marker. The marker is engraved with the information that he was buried in the post cemetery by act of congress.
I'm no historian but the life of Quanah Parker is very interesting to me.
Besides the history lesson we had beautiful weather for about a 500 mile round trip and the first weekend motorcycle trip I've been able to take since October.
If anyone is interested in seeing Quanah Parker's Star House I can provide that information.
Prominent in the book was Quanah Parker, son of Cynthia Ann Parker, a young white girl who was captured by raiding Comanches in 1836 and later became the teenaged bride of a Comanche chief. Reading about Quanah and COL Mackenzie who fought battles in Blanco Canyon very near where I live now I became interested in Quanah, the last chief of the Comanches.
Yesterday, Saturday morning two other Goldwingers and myself rode from Crosby and Dickens County north to Cache, OK to tour Quanah's home which is deteriorating badly but is still intact at the former Eagle Trading Post Amusement Park at Cache, OK. We toured the house, talked a little history with the owner/tourguide, then spent the night in Lawton, OK.
This morning we visited Ft. Sill and located the burial place of Quanah Parker, his mother Cynthia Ann Parker, and his sister Prairie Flower. Quanah is buried in a position of respect in what was the post cemetery in the late 1800s with a large and impressive grave marker. The marker is engraved with the information that he was buried in the post cemetery by act of congress.
I'm no historian but the life of Quanah Parker is very interesting to me.
Besides the history lesson we had beautiful weather for about a 500 mile round trip and the first weekend motorcycle trip I've been able to take since October.
If anyone is interested in seeing Quanah Parker's Star House I can provide that information.