![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quanah was the son of a Comanche war chief named Peta Nocona and a white woman named Cynthia Ann Parker who had been captured in 1836 when she was 9 and assimilated into the tribe. ![]() Several key figures, Comanche, Spanish and American, defined the long conflict, among them: Don Juan Bautista de Anza, an 18th-century Spanish governor of New Mexico who defeated a Comanche chief called Cuerno Verde, then negotiated a peace treaty that largely saved New Mexico from the violence that would plague the Texas frontier Buffalo Hump, who led a thousand Comanches on a violent campaign that shocked the heart of Anglo Texas the ruthless Texas Ranger John Coffee Hays and Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, whom Gwynne calls "the anti-Custer," a brilliant, driven cavalry officer whose relentless pursuit of Quanah Parker and the Comanches finally forced their surrender in mid-1875. ![]()
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