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Quanah

[ kwah-nuh ]

noun

  1. Quanah Parker, 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.


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“He was still winning,” Kellie Frost said one night in their home in Quanah, Texas.

The horse fell suddenly, pitching Quanah headlong to the ground his gun falling from his grasp and bounding away.

The father of T'ebodal is famous for having had ten wives; Quanah, the present head chief of the Comanche, has six.

The Adobe Walls, where Quanah led his celebrated fight, were not built until 1873 or 1874 and were some distance down the river.

Then something happened that Quanah was never able to explain.

A number of different stories have been related about Quanah's mishaps in the fight.

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