Biography quanah parker

In the heart of the Stockyards Historic District of Fort Worth stands a statue to famous Comanche Chief Quanah Parker. What tourists may not understand is that there is little reason for it to be there.

Quanah never lived in Fort Worth, had no family roots there and visited the Texas city only rarely. Yet this son of a Comanche father and a white mother became Fort Worth’s “native son” in the truest sense.

Biography quanah parker

His is the remarkable story of a man with his feet in two cultures who helped heal the wounds of war between them.

He was born and grew up in the world of the fearsome Comanches but died in the white man’s world after making peace with his people’s longtime enemies.

His birth name was Quanah, a Comanche word that translates roughly as “odor” or “fragrance.” Years later he added the surname “Parker” as a concession to the white half of his ancestry. The two names symbolized the two worlds of Quanah Parker.

Quanah always said he was born “about ,” but various historians have place