Killing Cynthia Ann

Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 1999. Q5 - A first edition (co additional printing) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Charles Brashear to previous owner in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, old price label adhered on the back, some scattered light scratches, rubbing and scuffing, tanning and light shelf wear. Book lightly bowed and cocked, some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, some scattered light foxing on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5", 209 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. The saga of Cynthia Ann Parker is well known to historians of the Texas frontier and readers of historical fiction. Kidnapped from Parker's Fort near Mexia by raiding Comanches in 1836, she was completely assimilated into the Noconi band. She married tribal leader Peta Nocona and bore him two sons, Quanah and Pecos, and a daughter, Toh-Tsee-Ah. Late in 1860, she and toddler Topsannah (as the whites called her) were recaptured by Texas Rangers and returned to "civilization" and the extended Parker clan. Cynthia Ann never adapted to white culture. She was shunted from one Parker family to another, living in constant grief and doubt - about herself and her daughter and about the fate of her Comanche family still on the prairies. Convinced she was a captive of the Texans, Cynthia Ann was determined to escape to the high plains and the Comanche way. The Parkers neither cared for nor understood Cynthia Ann's obsession with returning to her homeland and her people. Several novels have been written about Cynthia Ann's capture and her life with the tribe, but the decade that Cynthia Ann spent among her kin in the villages and countryside of North Texas has not been explored in fiction or serious historical study. Charles Brashear's thoroughly researched and vividly realistic novel, Killing Cynthia Ann, tells the story as it might have happened and turns it into a compelling and unforgettable drama.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.