Parker Family/Fort Parker collection, 1823-1983, undated 1935-1965, undated.

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Parker Family/Fort Parker collection, 1823-1983, undated 1935-1965, undated.

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The Parker Family/Fort Parker Collection was acquired in one gift on 1984 August 16 from Jan Connally Jennings. The collection begins with 1823 copies of legal papers on the Parker family, and goes until 1983 with a book on Quanah Parker. The bulk of the collection is between 1935 and 1965, with a large amount of essays and other printed materials undated. The largest series is literary productions.

3.6 linear feet (8 boxes)

Baylor University Libraries, Moody Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8143065

Baylor University Libraries, Moody Memorial Library

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Connally, Ernest Allen

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The Parker Family/Fort Parker Collection was assembled by Ernest Connally for his personal research. His research centered on the Fort Parker story, and included famous Texas figures Cynthia Ann Parker and Quanah Parker, the last major Comanche chief to give up warfare against the United States. The collection contains many printed materials, correspondence, and rare early photographs of the Mexia, Texas, area. Ernest Connally was a citizen of Groesbeck, Texas, by 1936. ...

Parker, Cynthia Ann, 1827?-1864

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Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911

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Prominant Comanche chief; lived in Fort Sill, Okla., area. From the description of Papers, 1852-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70971447 Quanah Parker (ca. 1845-1911), son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona and famous Indian captive Cynthia Ann Parker, was the last chief of the Quahada Comanche Indians. He played a prominent role in the Comanche tribe's resistance to white settlement and ultimately to their adjustment to reservation life. Parker led ...

Parker family.

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