[katana]

The Comanche made the Apaches, who they brutally displaced west into Arizona, look like the local Welcome Wagon. Quanah Parker was the half white son of the abducted Cynthia Ann Parker, whose own story was the supposed basis for what may be the greatest Western ever filmed, John Ford's The Searchers.

[vetvetdoug]

I was reared along the Red River in Texas just South of Comanche County, Oklahoma and went to High school with several grandchildren of Quanah Parker and even lived next door to a grandchild of the Chief. Our football coach was full Comanche. I heard stories of the Comanche exploits from the sons and grandchildren.