I will be dipped in sh##!
Texans named a town after Quanah Parker?
I had no idea. Considering how hated the Comanche were for a generation, especially in Texas, that is pretty amazing. If you have never heard of him, Quanah was the last Comanche chief and under his leadership the Comanche actually pushed the Westerners back for quite some time. He was the son of a Comanche chief, Peta Nocona, and an American woman Cynthia Parker, who had been kidnapped as a child but had nearly completely assimilated into the Comanche tribe before being captured by Texas Rangers at the age of 34 and forcibly returned to distant relatives.
Another cool thing about Quanah is that even though he and his tribe were exiled to Oklahoma, he ended up a millionaire of sorts with huge tracts of land, several wives and a huge mansion. I believe he went hunting with Teddy Roosevelt fairly frequently too. Even in the early 20th Century the Comanche were a name to be reckoned with. My Grandfather homesteaded in Montana around 1910 and he named the most ornery stallion he ever owned Comanche because there was absolutely no give in that horse. We have pictures of Grampa on Comanche and that horse looks mad as he** in every photo.
Life is stranger than fiction. A Texas town named after Quanah Parker. That takes the cake.
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This train extends the route of the California Zephyr, connecting Denver to Houston via Colorado Springs and Dallas. This follows the old CB&Q route, which wasn't a candidate for Amtrak service as it was dropped in 1967. Since then, the major cities on this route have drastically increased their population.
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