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1845/1848 - Quanah Parker is born in Wichita Falls, Texas (according to some sources)

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1861 - 1865 (American Civil War)

Norwegian ethnographer Carl Sophus Lumholtz writes in Volume 1 of his 1902 treatise, "Unknown Mexico," that during the Civil War there were Texas Rangers who were captured by Union forces and held as prisoners of war, with the men turning to drinking a beverage consisting of soaked peyote buttons in water, having been deprived of alcohol and all other intoxicants.

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December 18, 1860 - Cynthia Parker is rescued

After years of Cynthia's father searching for her with the help of various scouts, a group of Texas Rangers led by Lawrence Sullivan Ross discovered a band of Comanche deep in the heart of Comancheria that was rumored to house American captives.

The Rangers carried out a surprised raid, with the small group attacking the Comanches in the Battle of Pease River.

Ross and his men closed in on the individual who seemed to be their leader, who was fleeing on horseback with a female companion. As the Rangers approached the woman that was with him and surrounded her, she held a child over her head.

Ross pursued the fleeing chief, shooting him three times, knocking him off his horse. However, the chief refused to then surrender. Ross's cook, Antonio Martinez, identified the man as Noncona and killed him.

The Texas Rangers questioned the woman and she, using broken English, identified herself as Cynthia Parker. Ross sent Cynthia and her child to Camp Cooper, notifying her uncle, Colonel Isaac Parker.

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