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[Photograph 2012.201.B1000.0402]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Matriarchal head of the descendants of Quanah Parker, 92-year-old Nora Parker, a sister-in-law, is surrounded by great-grandchildren of the last Comanche tribal chief. Some 60 family members attended a Labor Day reunion Monday at Lake Quanah Parker in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge northwest of Lawton."
Date: September 7, 1976
Creator: John, Lisa
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0421]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Grandsons of Quanah Parker carry the Comanche chief's coffin in reburial rite Friday at Fort Sill for the famed Indian and his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker. The flag draping the coffin was later presented to one of Parker's daughters, Mrs. Wanada Page, Lawton."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0423]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crying into a handkerchief as friends walked by following reburial rites for Chief Quanah Parker Friday is his daughter, Mrs. Wanda Parker, above center. At right is her neice, Mrs. Teresa Komah, Lawton. A solemn, colorful ceremony under blazing mid-afternoon sun marked the reburial of the last chief of the Comanches, Quanah Parker, and his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, in the post cemetery here Friday. A crowd o… more
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0424]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a high-ranking serviceman in dress uniform walking the way for the coffin being carried to the site, both service and civilians are carrying the coffin, people lined-up along the pathway, and more.)"
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0426]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Last Chief Of The Comanches, Quanah Parker, found a final resting place at Fort Sill Friday. His body and that of his mother, Cynthia Ann parker, were reburied in Post cemetery. The ceremony, shown above, climaxed a stormy family controversy over where the new grave should be after the army took over old Post Oak Mission Cemetery, the original burial site, as part of a guided missle site."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0422]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of many at a funeral that has a tent, many the far around the tent are in uniform, a number of them is regular clothing, the guy in the foreground right is sitting and holding a hat, and more.)"
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0425]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of many soldiers in form for burial ceremonies wearing silver-metal helmets, civilians at the far middle left, graves in the foreground, and more."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Quanah Parker's Narrow Escape

Description: Article chronicles how Comanche chief, Quanah Parker, narrowly escaped being killed by carbon monoxide during a stay at a hotel. The accident resulted in Parker's companion, Yellow Bear, dying and roused suspicion throughout the Comanche population. In the end, the people chose to support Parker due to the respect he held on the reservations.
Date: Summer 1968
Creator: Tyler, Ronnie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Did Quanah Parker Lie?

Description: Article examines documentary evidence surrounding the battle of Pease River to support Quanah Parker's claims that his father Peta Nocona did not participate in the battle nor was he killed there.
Date: Autumn 2015
Creator: Crum, Tom & Carlson, Paul H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Two Quanah Parker Letters

Description: Article provides context to and includes two letters written by Comanche leader Quanah Parker. James M. Day explains Parker's concern for his people and their welfare and his request for the removal of his mother's body, which was buried in Texas, to Oklahoma so he could be buried near here when he passed.
Date: Autumn 1966
Creator: Day, James M. & Parker, Quanah
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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