The town of Quanah is paying tribute to its namesake at noon Saturday with the unveiling of a mural depicting famous Comanche Chief Quanah Parker. The mural painted by Parker’s great-great grandson, ...

Taylor Sheridan has found his latest project, a story on the life of historic Comanche leader Quanah Parker. Gwyne’s “Empire of the Summer Moon” follows two distinct stories. The first tells the rise ...

As a significant element of the Texas mystique, the story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah Parker constitute a sensational chapter in Texas history. The Comanche leader Quanah Parker was the ...

Parker had powerful Fort Worth friends in cattlemen Burk Burnett and Dan Waggoner and was an honored guest of the Fat Stock Show more than once. Today a larger-than-life statue to him stands in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DUNCAN, Okla. (KFOR) – The Old West still ...

Quanah Parker became a respected leader of the Comanche Nation at the end of the Plains Indian Wars. He spent much of his life caught between two worlds. He was the son of a white settler and a ...

Amarillo honored the Panhandle's history and last chief of the Comanche nation Wednesday morning with the unveiling of a Quanah Parker statue as a permanent feature in the Rick Husband Amarillo ...

While descendants of Cynthia Ann Parker may debate some details of her capture, many can recite the facts by heart. At around 10 a.m. on May 19, 1836, forty miles east of modern-day Waco, the ...

In 1836, a 9-year-old pioneer girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped during a Comanche raid in North Texas. She was strapped onto the back of a horse and taken north, back into the Plains where ...