Quanah Parker and Cynthia Parker

page 17-18: "Led by Quanah Parker and other leaders, the Comanche also attacked the trading post at Adobe Walls, just north of the Canadian River. Parker was regal-looking and charismatic, with soft features that made him appear almost feminine. His first name meant Sweet Smell, which is believed to have come from his mother, a Texan kidnapped at age nine and raised as a Comanche. She married into the tribe and raised three children, including Sweet Smell. After Cynthia Parker had lived twenty-four years as an Indian, the Texas Rangers kidnapped her back and killed her husband, Chief Peta Nocona. She begged to be returned to the Indians, but the Rangers would not let her go home.......In his later years, Sweet Smell married seven women and built a large house."

*"almost feminine"

Quanah Parker and two wives. Topay is on the left, and Chonie is on the right. Photo circa 1890: Indian Territory. Photo by William E. Irwin ...More Photos
*"Sweet Smell" - I am not sure why (after the initial reference to his name) Quanah is referred to as "Sweet Smell"...the meaning of his name, not his name. I have not found references to him using "Sweet Smell" as the name people called him or he called himself...so not sure when he did.

*"a Texan kidnapped at age nine" - Her biography was published in The Navarro County Scroll in 1987. Another is found in the Handbook of Texas.

Read about the Fall of Fort Parker in 1836.

*"killed her husband, Chief Peta Nocona" - Quanah disputed when and where his father died, but doesn't seem to have been proven.

*"the Rangers would not let her go home" - the Rangers, apparently, returned her to her surviving members of her white family. Seems to be the norm that kidnapping victims are not usually left with the kidnappers, but not sure about the norm during this era...or what the precedence was when white people were found that had been kidnapped.