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The descendants of Elder John Parker were a strange and often brilliant family who may have changed the course of Texas and Western history. Their obsession with religion and their desire for land took them from Virginia to Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, and finally Texas. From their midst came Cynthia Ann, taken captive by Comanches as a young girl and recaptured as an adult to live in grief among her birth family until she died. From their line too came her son, Quanah Parker, last of the great Comanche war chiefs-and first of their great peace leaders. Although the broad outlines of the stories of Cynthia Ann and Quanah are familiar, Jo Ella Powell Exley adds a new dimension by placing them in the context of the stubborn, strong, contentious Parker clan, who lived near and dealt with restive Indians across successive frontiers until history finally brought them to Texas, where their fate changed. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, including several first-person stories, Exley follows Cynthia Ann through her life in the Indian camp and eventually her recapture by her birth family. She also tells the dramatic story of Quanah Parker through childhood, battle, surrender, and reservation life. This narrative is filled with authentic flavor and sets straight a story that has sometimes been distorted. It offers new insight if not a definitive interpretation of Cynthia Ann Parker's last years, providing a more complex picture of the white years of a woman who had matured among the Comanches since the age of nine. Among the documents from which Exley draws are a short autobiography of Daniel Parker, Rachel Parker Plummer's two narratives of her Indian captivity, James Parker's account of his search for Rachel and the other captives, and several autobiographical accounts Quanah dictated to his friends. Exley tells a compelling story and gives rich character insights into the extended Parker family. But she also does more: she gives a feeling o AUTHOR: Jo Ella Powell Exley
PUBLISHER: Texas A & M University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest
In a tone that is angry and dismissive, historian Robert Conquest, taking stock of the 20th century, sees slaughter everywhere and blames ideologies and theorists. AUTHOR: Robert Conquest
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Portable Sixties Reader by Ann Charters
Description not available.Organized thematically, this outstanding anthology provides an intriguing overview of the turbulent decade of the 1960s in more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by Edward Abbey, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Timothy Leary, Gloria Steinem, Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Alice Walker, Jim Carroll, William Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and others. Original. AUTHOR: Ann Charters
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Bonfires & Beacons by Larry Wright, Patricia Wright
Photographer Larry Wright has captured the most interesting and beautiful lighthouses protecting some of North America's most treacherous waters. Stories of wrecks and rescues, lights and lightkeepers abound. Featured lighthouses are located in Ontario, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio. AUTHOR: Larry Wright, Patricia Wright
PUBLISHER: Boston Mills Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Duty, Honor, Country by Stephen E. Ambrose
Ambrose provides a concise overview of perhaps the foremost institution of military education, the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He covers its beginnings in the President Jefferson and its unique mission to prepare a corps of officers to serve, and offers profiles of the superintendents who shaped it and the cadets who were graduated from it. AUTHOR: Stephen E. Ambrose
PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Empire of Their Own by Neal Gabler
Description not available.Profiles the early Hollywood studio moguls, examining how the movies of Fox, Mayer, and the Warners, among others, came to shape American values, myths, and traditions AUTHOR: Neal Gabler
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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