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This Week in the West: Quanah Parker, Remarkable Native Leader
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🎙️ Episode 69: Quanah Parker, Remarkable Native Leader
📢 Episode Summary:
This week on This Week in The West, we remember Quanah Parker, the famed Comanche leader, on the anniversary of his death on February 23, 1911. Born the son of Comanche war chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker—a white woman captured and raised among the Comanche—Quanah grew up fully immersed in Comanche life during a time when the power of the Plains tribes was rapidly being challenged by American expansion.
As railroads spread westward and commercial hunters decimated the buffalo herds that…
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