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No mention of Cynthia Parker?


Captured as a child, had kids, rescued as an adult.
Went back to the Comanche at her first chance.

Yes. He was basically nekked as a jaybird. And waltzed right in.

I don't think Comanches got much chance against Apaches.

Interesting video. Learned a few things.

Yep! I’d recommend it too. I really liked it.

Nope, there was another German guy who did that, Kaywoodie prob’ly remembers his name.

Poor Cynthia Anne was recaptured 1860, Charles Goodnight who had been schooled in woodcraft by an elderly Caddo, scouted for the Ranging Company that caught her (Baylor?). Her husband Peta Nocona was killed in that attack.

Cynthia Anne was captured along with her infant daughter Topsannah, tried several times to escape.

When the infant died of a fever it’s said Cynthia died of a broken heart.

That’s a popular version, such things ain’t always true.

You mean the mother of Chief Quanah Parker ?

And No. She NEVER returned to the Comanches.

Rudolph Fischer

The story of Temple Friend and the Legion Creek massacreis a damn good one too! In Llano county around the Oxford community.

Good video!

Bb

OK Tejas boys,
thanks for the correction.

Now I gotta try to remember the right version!

Anyone interested in this stuff, here is another book I recommend on the subject. Written by a descendant of Adolph Korn that I mentioned earlier. Author born and raised in Mason County Tx.

He goes into pretty good detail concerning the German-Comanche treaty of 1847 and other aspects of those folks. Also good info on the other captives taken from the area.

We have plenty of Osage Orange around here. But nothing that would rive out a straight section that long. Maybe they grow taller, straighter out your way. Wow...

To make a bow you take a trunk and split staves off of it. Doesn’t have to be a large trunk. Just one that can be split. Which is much easier said than done.

Bois d’arc also makes excellent house piers. As demonstrated here at the old home place south of Bastrop Tx. at Hill’s Prairie. My great grandfather and grandmother Norment circa 1925.

Indians in western Pennsylvania and the Ohio River valley also captured and raised white children. I understand that it was their belief that a child that died could be replaced by another. Many of these kids stayed with the tribe, even when the opportunity to return to white society was given.

"Somewhere" I have a piece of osage orange that a nephew split out for me. Excellent for making bows because (around here) the wood always grows in a natural curve. Very few straight sections. Hence the surprise when somewhere up above mentioned a 14 ft lance.

I do not believe the lances were made of bois d’arc. I believe they were more commonly fabricated out of something like a sotol stalk. At least down here. And lots of river cane used in southeast.

Don’t have a clue as to what was used elsewhere. But I imaging it was something else just as light and handy.

Yep, the injuns were pretty "savage". Hence the name. Just think what happened when they got a little Irish blood mixed in. Watch the fu ck out!!!!!

I downloaded it on my Kindle yesterday and have been reading it.