Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker

by Tom Crum and Paul H. Carlson

Book Overview

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"