Cynthia Parker

When a group of Indians raided Parker's Fort in 1836, they captured a young girl named Cynthia Ann Parker. Later they traded her, and for 24 years Cynthia lived among the Comanches, marrying a chief, Peta Nocona, and bearing him a future chief, Quanah. Her captors became her people. And when Cynthia was ""rescued"" in 1860, she found herself a stranger in white man's society. After several unsuccessful attempts to return to the Indians she loved, Cynthia died in 1864. She had lived in two worlds, but she could live happily in only one