. In the bosom of the Comanches;. ty he frequentlystated to me that he would die before he would let thewhite people take their country away from them. Inanswer to my inquiry as to what he considered his countryhe designated the country from Fort Worth east to Redri^^er and west to the Colorado river, and from this line Waneda Parker, the daughter of Quanah Parker, the lateChief of the Comanche Indians, is a young woman of strikingappearance and of much cultivation. Her mother is a full bloodComanche, while her paternal grandmother was the famousCynthia Ann Parker, a white woman who was taken
. In the bosom of the Comanches;. ty he frequentlystated to me that he would die before he would let thewhite people take their country away from them. Inanswer to my inquiry as to what he considered his countryhe designated the country from Fort Worth east to Redri^^er and west to the Colorado river, and from this line Waneda Parker, the daughter of Quanah Parker, the lateChief of the Comanche Indians, is a young woman of strikingappearance and of much cultivation. Her mother is a full bloodComanche, while her paternal grandmother was the famousCynthia Ann Parker, a white woman who was taken into cap-tivity in girlhood, latterly to become the consort of the famousComanche chief, Peta Nocona, slain in a hand to hand combatby that immortal hero, General Sul Ross. One of WanedaParkers elder sisters was married to a Mr. Emmet Cox, a whiteman, and from this union there was a daughter who was educatedin the best seminaries and is now an accomplished school teacherin the Philippine Islands. In the Bosom of the Comanches 109. WANEDA PARKERDaughter of Quanah Parker, late Chief of the Comanche Ind lans. 110 In the Bosom of the Comanches north to the Arkansas river. At Fort Sill I learned thatPernurmey had made good his resolve to die in defenseof what he considered his country, and was killed in LostValley, Texas. I was told by the surviving Indians at^Fort Sill that five Indian warriors and one squaw headedby Pernurmey left the reservation at Fort Sill, saying theywere going to Texas to get some more scalps of the whitemen, before laying aside the tomahawk forever. Thiswas in 1873, and on the raid Ira Long, of Wise county,Texas, with a small company of rangers overtook them,killing four and wounding two. As the wounded werenever heard of again they must have perished from theirwounds. The Indians would relate to me their exper-iences in the various fights and raids that they had madeinto Texas for many years preceding. They referred tothe time when the white men had no guns
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