Comanche Warriors vs. The U.S. Army : Quanah Parker's Rise To Power
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- Quanah Parker was the last great chief of the Comanche, but he was a man of two worlds. His father was a famed Comanche warchief named Peta Nocona, while his mother was the daughter of Scotch-Irish settlers who had come to America in the 1700’s and fought in the Revolutionary War.
Join History At The OK Corral for the story of how the greatest chief of the Comanche rose to power after his life was turned upside down when his father was killed and his mother was “rescued” by the Texas Rangers, leaving Quanah and his younger brother to fend for themselves.
But, as his mother wiles away a tedious, torturous life in a small town outside of Fort Worth, Quanah’s stature as a warrior is on the rise due a series of brutal raids that ravaged the entirety of Central Texas throughout the latter half of the 1860’s. Finally, while on a raid to steal horses, Quanah seizes the opportunity to become a leader, and things for himself, as well as the Comanche, are never the same again.
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I love the way you finish each episode. “Other Stories for Other Times”. It tells me there are more coming.
I hate the way you finish each episode. “Other Stories for Other Times”. It tells me the story is finished.
His mother couldn't adapt at all but Quanah adapted very well. He came to enjoy many things about civilization. Going to big cities, riding on trains, was in the first western movie ever made. The difference in the two is strange.
He was 'a man you don't meet everyday', for sure. No man's fool, he had the prescence of mind which enabled him to realise that to survive, he needed to adapt. He did so superbly well, in my opinion.
but chose to lead the last Comanche warriors fighting the Texans !
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Perhaps it wasn’t a difference between mother and son , but a son adapted to change because of his mother
He became a well to do Rancher, he had his mother and sister's graves moved to near his large Victorian home and had large memorials built for them. He had a great head for business.
I live outside Denton, TX which is a short drive from Gainesville, TX. Driving around here in the cross timbers where the post oak savannah starts to mix with the blackland prairie, it's fascinating to envision the Rangers and the Comanche traversing the terrain.
You have a really great thing going here, man. I can’t stop listening to your renditions. Thank you for bringing these lesser known bits of history to life. You are quickly becoming my most watched channel.
Thank you so much! We work hard on these so it means the world to us that you enjoy them!
I have visited Fort Richardson near Jacksboro, TX many times. I was unaware of these stories and never understood the fort’s purpose, nor of the battles with the Comanche. Thank you for sharing these stories, I am thoroughly enjoying them!
You’d likely enjoy the book Empire of the Summer Moon if you want to know a lot more about that area and Quanah
absolute master piece. I was on a road trip and passed through the white river, blanco canyon, and pease river areas Texas. Truly amazing. You paint such a vivid picture. I love your work.
Yet another outstanding presentation. Thank you for working to keep/teach American history and those that lived it.
Great video respect from Ireland 🇮🇪 👏
Thanks again - keep em coming.
Thanks for the video!
Another great post! Thanks👍👍
Great job once again!!
Today was a rough day glad I got a HOKC video 🙏🏻
Hope this helped! God bless.
Quannah is a great warrior, i love learning more about him.
You do a wonderful job and I thank you for sharing ❤. Ty again Sir and long live the Comanche!!! A'ho
Great content as always
Enjoy all your vids. One note: The Pease River where the fight took place is pronounced like the word “please” without the L. Not Pea-sy. The battleground is on private property, I’ve been there.
Awesome 👌 There are always two stories or more involved !
Great story, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well researched and presented.👍
Masterful narration. Thank you.
Thank you kindly!
Good stuff thank you
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Incredible
Cynthia Ann Parker's life is so tragic. It is already heartbreaking for a 9 year old to witness the deaths of her father and uncles, but then to become a Comanche, fall in love, and have children, only to believe all where dead was such a terrible fate.
What a story,
Just imagine 🤔
Thank you for presenting another fascinating story about America’s rich history.
Our historical past is a little bit less ‘colourful’ down here in Australia.
Apart from our colonial heritage which is based on the prisoner penal colonies, bush rangers and our very dark relentless efforts to try and eliminate the indigenous people who have lived here for thousands of years, we seem to pale in comparison to your old western stories.
Keep up the great work ❤😊
A tad harsh? Australian (Primary Source) Colonial histories are out there, while certainly not in the quantity of the Yanks, they do make very interesting reads.
Not so much resent histories though, and that's only because so much hand wringing and pearl clutching tends to give me the 'dry heaves'.
And as for 'colour', if we had the fine narrating/production skills of H.O.K.C. I'm positive there'd be a bang-up job done of Australian history.
Our Sandalista'd probably go nuts, but they can take a long walk of a short jetty.
Burke and Wills was gnarly tho. Ned Kelly. And we have a special episode in the works on an occurence in NZ...🤐
Amazing work brother thank you.
My pleasure
How do there come to be photographs of Quanna and his brother, as children?
I know a lot about Quanha, Parker and his mother Cynthia Ann, my grandmother told me when I was a kid that I was related somehow to him but I'm not sure how since then I learned everything I could about him so I really appreciate this video to hear some things I didn't know, I know they still maintain his house that has 5 stars on the roof because after going back East to Washington to represent the 10 tribes he stayed in hotels that had 5 star ratings when he had his built he wanted 5 stars on the roof, I know a lot more about him but I'm not going to try to write an article I could but it's too much.
I like the way you relate these. I watched In the Heart of the Sea and while I loved the book the movie was too up close to be enjoyable.
Quannah is my favorite Native American to learn about.
Great video as always! I recently got the book “Comanches: The History of a People” by T. R. Fehrencach (you mentioned the book in another video), so now when I read it, I hear your voice narrating the text 😂
Great video. Back to Jeff Turner please!?
Coming soon!
@historyattheokcorral the parallels of this story removes a lot of the "romance" from The Searchers, which is one of my favorite John Wayne movies.
To think Iron Jacket and Peta Nochana was his Grandfather and Father and his Ma fought to survive daily for years . QP was at Max power
Long live the Comanche.
Its horrible what the Commanches did to Cynthia Anne. Completely brainwashed and cleansed her of her identity and ultimately killed her. The brutality of aboriginal people was unparalleled.
I don't think people realize just how savage the plains were and the atrocities that were commonplace there prior to any European influence.
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I empathize with quanah and his mother but does it make the Parker family bad people for searching for decades to bring their children home?
Well it does say a thing or 2 about their preference to stay with the Comanche. Who where considered pretty savage by other tribes yet seemed to offer a happier life, or at least a more meaningful life, than the "civilised" people conquering what is now Texas !
@@ottodidakt3069 well you are talking about a woman who has suffered through the extreme violence and emotional torture of watching her family murdered in a raid when she was a child and then thrown into a completely alien existence for the next however many years and then watched her “husband “ killed by her former civilization and torn from the second lifestyle that she knew and never knowing what happened to her two sons ( probably a mother’s worst nightmare) and denied the ability to go find them . I am not sure this is a woman of sound mind and emotionally healthy to say the least , she had a extremely rough life from the first raid to her dying days . I don’t think I would base my opinions on her mindset and opinions, pure and simple she experienced a life no one would volunteer for but she was a survivor that’s for sure.
No in fact there is more on this very subject coming soon!
If you read Sarah Plummer Parkers autobiography 21 months a captive of the Comanche....you should have a bit more empathy for the Parker family...and some serious horror at 1840 Comanche life
@@curtismes I feel like you misunderstood my post, I'm saying that we should
Quanah Parker
Quanna Parker, was born to be a great warrior. Quanna Parker is considered one of the top five great Warrior Chiefs, by a Native professor of American Native history. I am Mexican American from from 2 Mexican tribes.
Surmised death BC that was the Comanche practice with captives lacking utility.
There's some similarities between Cynthia Ann's story and the Two Rode Together movie with Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark.
Actually I was thinking “ The Searchers “ with John Wayne .
Excellent presentation, as usual. As a sixth-generation Texan with an ancestor killed in a Comanche raid, I find myself immersed and mentally transported with the well-done video and audio back to the days of my forebears.
Thank you for the quality and quantity.
Don't adhere to the notion of 'coincidence,' It'll set you back moving forward.
How is there a picture of Peanuts or was that a stock photo?
Stock photo
Madness to expect Cynthia to accept captivity as opposed to the life of a Nermunuh squaw. Decades on the Southern Great Plains had erased all traces of her former identity, save her skin hue.
How did he get the “ tin type” ? Did I miss something ?
the story is incomplete, because Quanah's story goes for a long time. The Parkers get a hold of him (twice I think ?) but he ends up escaping and leads the last Comanche warriors still holding up, eve after the rest of the Tribe has given in. ... so maybe that's where he got the "tin type" from ?
Name..a....fort...after.....him❤.
Don't forget that many Comanche don't believe in Kwanna being that chief. we had a council and not just one person.
Wow, Quite a spin on the kidnapped Cinthia Ann Parker, adopted, sure.
How ironic.
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I think her family was murdered and her husband was killed in battle. There is a difference.
I don't exactly know who it is I'm related to but I know it's one the relatives of Cynthia Ann who escaped from the fort parker massacre. It's so surreal to look at a picture of Quanah Parker and know my very existence is partly connected to him
There are like three ppl claiming kinship in the comment section lol
Did I hear correctly in one of your episodes that the Comanche slave trade rivaled the Trans-Atlantic? If so, how do we know that? Enjoy these lively histories. Cheers.
A tale of murder, rape and kidnapping.
Comanche dog soldiers
Cheyenne had dog soldiers, not the Comanche.
Why not let her go to be with Comanches