Sunshine on the Prairie: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker Books a wagon train

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Gelo is Dean and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus and former Stumberg Distinguished University Chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio and has written several award-winning publications on the Indians of Texas and the Great Plains

She endured their hardships and she also learned to love the freedom of the pristine wilderness

Our Way of Life presents vivid accounts of Fredericksburg natives and other members of long-established Gillespie County families

Imprint: Arcadia Publishing

Sunshine on the Prairie: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker Books a wagon trainby Jack C. Ramsay, Jr. SUNSHINE ON THE PRAIRIE is the story of CYNTHIA ANN PARKER, captured by a band of Comanches as a nine year old while living in Fort Parker with her family. It was 24 years before she was "re captured" by her "white family". This is the intriguing story of why she did not want to be rescued from her Comanche family. During her 24 year captivity, she had become a wife to Nocona, the most feared of the Comanche war chiefs and the