QUANAH PARKER TIMELINE

QUANAH PARKER

1845-1911

TIMELINE

	1827	Cynthia Ann Parker is born in Coles ILL to Silas and Lucy Parker
	1834	Oklahoma set aside as Indian Territory
	1836	May 19^th Cynthia Ann, her brother John and three others are taken by Comanches at Parker’s Fort.
	1840	Col. Len Williams, and 3 other traders, visit Comanche chief Pa-ha-u-ka, and tried to ransom Cynthia Ann but was refused. He talked to her but she refused to answer.
	1845	Quanah Parker born between 1845-1852 Western Panhandle region became U.S. territory with the annexation of Texas
	1849	Captain R A Marcy explores the Red River and into New Mexico – he employs Cynthia Ann’s brother John who tells him he searched for and asked Cynthia Ann to return to her relatives – she refused.
	1854	Two reservations are established for Indians in West-Central Texas: one for Comanches on the Clear Fork of the Brazos in Throckmorton County, the other for more sedentary Indian groups, such as Tawakonis, Waco’s and Tonkawa’s, near Fort Belknap in Young County
	1855	Victor M. Rose visited a Comanche camp in which Cynthia Ann lived. He asked her if she would like to return to her people and she replied in the negative." Pointing to her husband, and her babies, she was quoted by Rose as saying: "I am happily wedded. I love my husband, who is good and kind, and my little ones, too, are his, and I cannot forsake them."
	1858	Toh-Tsee-ah (Prairie Flower) Parker born
	1860	Naudah and Toh-Tsee-ah are taken by Texas Rangers at Pease River
	1861	April - Texas Legislature grants a pension and land allotment to Cynthia Ann. A photo of her in a red and blue cape is taken in Austin. Isaac and Benjamin Parker are appointed guardians.
	1862	Quanah’s brother Pecos is believed to have died from smallpox.
	1864	Comanches battled Kit Carson and the US Soldiers at the first battle of Adobe Walls. The Indians won. Quanah’s sister Toh-Tsee-ah is believed to have died this year
	1867	Medicine Lodge Treaty
	1870	Cynthia Ann Parker listed on the Anderson County census at 45 years of age living in the home of her sister Orlena and J R O’Quinn. Cynthia Ann Parker dies and is buried first in Fosterville Cemetery, Anderson Co TX
	1874	Chief Quanah Parker led warriors in the 2^nd Battle of Adobe Walls.
	1875	Quanah leads the Quahadi band into FT Sill
	1878	Charles Goodnight negotiated a treaty with Quanah to graze cattle
	1878	Congress authorizes Indian Police and Courts for Indian Offenses
	1879	Carlisle Indian Industrial School founded.
	1881	Quanah negotiated with several cattlemen for grazing on Reservation lands
	1884	Star House is constructed
	1885	Death of Yellow Bear and Quanah becomes Chief
	1887	The Dawes Act was passed Commission began to conduct a census and allot Indian Reservation lands
	1889	Land in Indian Territory was opened to white settlement by land runs, lotteries, and auctions. The territory was split in half, and the western half became Oklahoma Territory.
	1889	Quanah is a Judge in the Court of Indian Offenses
	1890	May 2 Region was divided into Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory
	1893	Quanah with an Indian delegation visit the Jerome Commission in Washington DC regarding the Indian lands. September 16 The largest and most spectacular run in northern Oklahoma, the Cherokee Strip, was held.
	1896	Quanah and his son Harold are visiting the Jerome Commission in Washington DC regarding the Indian lands.
	1897	Quanah and other chiefs visit Carlisle Indian School, PA, returning to Oklahoma from Washington DC. Quanah takes several hundred Comanches to a Cowboy Reunion in Seymour TX – all are commended on their behavior by Captain Baldwin.
	1898	Quanah has three of his children attending Carlisle Indian School join him in Washington DC while negotiating with the Commission. Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition and Indian Congress at Omaha NE
	1899	Quanah’s son Harold joins him in Washington DC. Quanah visits Carlisle enroute back to Oklahoma accompanied by his daughter Laura.
	1900	Fort Worth Fair - Fort Worth, TX
	1901	Quanah made a Comanche band return to the reservation and to return a white captive
	1902	Grazing on Reservations was ended by the Government. Loss of income to the Comanches.
	1903	Visited Carlisle Indian Boarding School, PA Quanah’s son Baldwin attends Chilococo Indian School OK
	1904	St Louis Fair
	1905	Quanah Parker and others ride in President Theodore Roosevelt’s Inauguration Parade in Washington DC Quanah preached a sermon in a Cache Church where is daughter-in-law Laura Parker taught Sunday school. President Roosevelt went on a wolf hunt with Quanah and cattlemen.
	1907	Quanah Parker is a member of the Indian Council to the State Constitutional Convention June 16 Quanah visited by British Ambassador James Brice November 16 Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were combined to make a new state, Oklahoma. Oklahoma became the 46th state to join the Union.
	1908	Advertisement to locate Cynthia Ann’s grave J R O’Quinn letter to Quanah about grave location Movie – “A Bank Robbery”
	1909	Quanah’s Letter to Governor Campbell, Texas
	1910	Dallas’ Texas State Fair – Quanah is a major speaker October- Speech at Oklahoma City Return of Cynthia Ann's remains - Cache, OK
	1911	February 23rd. Quanah dies in his home. Obituaries and stories were published all over the United States.
	1957	Quanah, his mother and sister were reburied at Chief’s Knoll, Ft Sill Cemetery in a elaborate ceremony
		Named after Quanah: City of Quanah TX Quanah Mountain OK Quanah Lake OK Quanah Trailway OK Many schools in OK and Texas Hotel Convention Rooms in FT Worth TX Annual parades in FT Worth and other cities School Lesson Plans in OK and Texas are on Cynthia Ann Parker and on Quanah Parker; Texas state school tests have questions on Quanah Museums have special Quanah Parker displays Quanah Railroad Books, magazine articles and manuscripts published about his life Movies Theatrical Plays Historical Markers in OK and in Texas Artist paintings and sculptures Monuments Hundreds of people try and trace their family to Quanah

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