Killing Cynthia Ann
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Charles Brashear.
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Fort Worth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Parker, Cynthia Ann, 1827?-1864 -- Fiction.; Indian captivities -- Fiction.; Comanche Indians -- Fiction.; Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The saga of Cynthia Ann Parker is well-known to historians of the Texas frontier and readers of historical fiction. Kidnapped from Parker's Fort near Mexia by raiding Comanches in 1836, she was completely assimilated into the Noconi band. She married tribal leader Peta Nocona and bore him two sons, Quanah and Pecos, and a daughter, Toh-Tsee-Ah.

Late in 1860, she and toddler Topsannah (as the whites called her) were recaptured by Texas rangers and returned to "civilization" and the extended Parker clan."--BOOK JACKET.

"Cynthia Ann never adapted to white culture. She was shunted from one Parker family to another, living in constant grief and doubt - about herself and her daughter and about the fate of her Comanche family still on the prairies. Convinced she was a captive of the Texans, Cynthia Ann was determined to escape to the high plains and the Comanche way. The Parkers neither cared for nor understood Cynthia Ann's obsession with returning to her homeland and her people."--BOOK JACKET.

"Several novels have been written about Cynthia Ann's capture and her life with the tribe, but the decade that Cynthia Ann spent among her kin in the villages and countryside of North Texas has not been explored in fiction or serious historical study."--BOOK JACKET. "Charles Brashear's thoroughly researched and vividly realistic novel, Killing Cynthia Ann, tells the story as it might have happened."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes historical notes and a bibliographic essay on Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker.