Quanah Parker

Quanah Parker balanced native traditions with interactions with white settlers, founding the Native American Church and advocating for his tribe.

In a written letter from 1910 to the Texas cattle rancher Charlie Goodnight, the noted Comanche Chief Quanah Parker shared the story of his father Peta Nocona and the fight at the Pease River. In his words, Quanah shared the following: "When the Pease River fight took place my father with the main body of Indians was about seventy or eighty miles away with his Indian wife my brother and myself. He knew nothing of the fight until the two survivors, of the last named fight returned to the camp

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Traces of Texas. Legendary Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and two of his wives on a visit to the Waggoner Ranch near Vernon, Texas. Circa 1905

Folk Figure. He is often referred to as the last Chief of the Comanches, but the truth of the matter is that the Comanche people never elected him chief. In fact, there was no such thing as Chief of the Comanches; each band of Comanches had their own chief. After the surrender of the Comanche people and their placement...

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Chief Quanah Parker. Comanche. 1891. Photo by H.P. Robinson. Source - Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and his friend Burk Burnett on Burnett's famed Four Sixes Ranch near Guthrie, Texas. Quanah was there for a wolf hunt that also included another of Burk Burnett's friends, President Theodore Roosevelt. Burnett was, of course, a rancher, banker, and oilman, and the Four Sixes covered more than 206,000 acres. This was taken in 1905.

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Quanah Parker (seated far left on steps in #1 position) - Comanche - 1907.

This is the original main dining room table where the family ate, with friends, notables, and anyone who came to the house. Some of the well-know people who dined here are on the preceding plaque. The original stove in the small kitchen. Quanah Parker's bedroom. The bedroom of his favorite wife (of seven), Tenecie. It was located next to his room. She had no children. The front of the house. The right side of the house. From the behind the house looking toward the left side. The left side of...