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To: TexasCowboy
When the first ranging companies were formed in 1823, the Anglos they were protecting from the Indians, mainly Comanche, were part of Stephen F. Austin's colonies.

Here is a historical curiosity. Probably the best known Comanche war chief, and certainly the last to come in, was the maternal Grandson of early Texas Ranger Silas Parker. Quannah had nothing good to say about the Rangers, I don't think.

53 posted on 11/07/2004 9:06:18 AM PST by Racehorse
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To: Racehorse
"Quannah had nothing good to say about the Rangers, I don't think."

No, I don't imagine he did.

His mother was Cynthia Ann Parker of Parker's Fort who was abducted by the Comanches as a baby, and lived her life with the Comanches until her "liberation" by a Texas Ranger captain named Sul Ross.
Cynthia Ann never accepted the white man's life, and had to be put under guard to keep her from escaping.
She died four years later, and her daughter, who was only eighteen months old when Sul Ross found them, starved herself to death.

Quanah's tribe of Comanches, the Quahadis, the Kiowas, the Araphahoes, and Quanah's father's tribe, the Nacona's, were caught between a rock and a hard place.
The reservations didn't have enough food to feed them, and the buffalo hunters had stripped the plains of their only food source.
In retaliation the combined Indian tribes of about 700 men, with Quanah as their leader, attacked the buffalo hunter's camp at Adobe Walls.
With less than thirty people in the camp, the buffalo hunters defeated them with their long range Sharp's .50 caliber guns.

54 posted on 11/07/2004 9:47:14 AM PST by TexasCowboy (Texan by birth, citizen of Jesusland by the Grace of God)
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