Quanah Parker

 

Quanah was the son of Peta Nocona, a Comanche, and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white captive. He attained his greatest fame as a warrior at the second battle of Adobe Walls in 874. The following year Quanah’s band was one of the very last to surrender. After that time he led his people with great intelligence and ability in their struggle to conform to reservation life. Although Quanah had always lived far out on the plains where he had little chance for contact with white men, he seemed instinctively to know how to deal with them.