He came in because there was nothing left to sustain resistance.

Quanah Parker And The Meaning Of Surrender

Quanah Parker’s trajectory after the Red River War is one of the more remarkable individual stories in the history of the Southern Plains.

The son of Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, he had grown up entirely within Comanche society after his mother was retaken by Texas Rangers when he was a child.

He was a Quahada Comanche, leader of one of the most independent and resistant of the Comanche bands.