Linking up Cynthia Parker's story, along with that of her son Quanah should
be a solid start for the box-office.
Could even include Quanah's peyote-using warriors, "the long shot" by
Billy Dixon and Quanah getting rich in the white mans' world latter in life.
Could be a heck of a rip-roaring yarn. And true at the same time.
And did not Dances with Wolves deal with a similar individual with the Mary McDonnell part?
Having your family/friends murdered and acquiring Stockholm Syndrome doesn't sound very exciting to me.
Yes, Cynthia Parker's story is gripping and worthy of a film.
Also, an unknown or ignored story is that of Britt Johnson, a freed slave in Texas of the same time period, whose wife and 2 children were kidnapped by Comanches along with a white woman and her child.
All the white guys gave up but Britt kept after them, alone, pretended to be a trader and crept into the Comanche camp and brought them all home.
An incredible story of courage, love and perseverance. Never told. I bet you never heard of it.
I don't think so, but maybe I'm prejudiced having grown up in Haverhill and been surrounded by historic images of Dustin and the Colonial era.
Some historic houses from the 17th century still have what were known as "Indian shutters" that slid closed over the windows leaving only a slit for musket fire and Powder House Hill, the local repository for arms and ammo, complete with the actual Powder House is right behind the house I grew up in.
Most of the movies about our history, with few exceptions (Last of the Mohicans), are of the Western Indians when the reality is that the fight against the Eastern tribes lasted a heck of a lot longer and the odds against the Colonists were a lot higher than the odds against the Western settlers.
Metesky - HHS - Class of '62
Haverhill, Massachusetts, the town too tough to die.