OTOH Cynthia Anne Parker seems to have led a happy life among 'em (unless it was a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome).

I've never seen any account of her captivity that did not include the fact that she was beaten and enslaved...it would certainly be "torture" by modern standards. After she became the wife of a powerful man, she probably had as good a life as any woman could among the Comanches. But it was a hard life even for a chief's wife.

BTW, I attended Cynthia Anne Parker Elementary School in Houston.

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