Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker
(Part of the Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest Series)
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In December 1860, along a creek in northwest Texas, a group of U.S. Cavalry and Texas Rangers raided a Comanche hunting camp, killed several Indians, and took three prisoners. One was the woman they would identify as Cynthia Ann Parker, taken captive from her white family as a child a quarter century before. The event became the stuff of history and legend--based, as it turns out, on errors, falsifications, and mysteries. Myth, Memory, and Massacre...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0896727467
ISBN13:9780896727465
Release Date:February 2012
Publisher:Texas Tech University Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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