Quanah Parker was the last Chief of the Commanches and never
lost a battle to the white man. His tribe roamed over the area
where Pampas stands. He was never captured by the Army, but
decided to surrender and lead his tribe into the white man's
culture, only when he saw that there was no His was the last
tribe in the Staked Plains to come into the reservation system.
Quanah, meaning "fragrant," was born about 1850, son of Comanche
Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white girl taken
captive during the 1836 raid on Parker's Fort, Texas. Cynthia
Ann Parker was recaptured, along with her daughter, during an
1860 raid on the Pease River in northwest Texas. She had spent
24 years among the Comanche, however, and thus never readjusted
to living with the whites again. She died in Anderson County,
Texas, in 1864 shortly after the death of her daughter, Prairie
Flower. Ironically, Cynthia Ann's son would adjust remarkably
well to living among the white men. But first he would lead a
bloody war against them. Qu