![]() ![]() ![]() Here was why the West Coast and the East Coast settled before the middle of the country. "Why did the French stop coming west from Louisiana? Comanches. "If you go back through Comanche history, you see that they were the ones who stopped the Spanish from coming North," he explains. Gwynne tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he became interested in telling the Comanche story because of their integral role in preventing - and then opening up - the American West to white settlers. Gwynne traces the rise and fall of the Comanche Nation against the backdrop of the fight for control of the American Midwest. Gwynne's book, Empire of the Summer Moon. The story of Cynthia Ann and her son, Chief Quanah Parker, is told in S.C. She eventually married a highly respected Comanche chief and gave birth to three children, including Quanah - who would grow up to become the last and greatest Comanche leader. Parker became a ward of the chief and later, a full member of the Comanches. She was strapped onto the back of a horse and taken north, back into the Plains where the powerful American Indian tribe lived. In 1836, a 9-year-old pioneer girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped during a Comanche raid in North Texas. ![]()
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