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Quanah Parker Chief of the Comanches c.1910
Possibly by Edward Bates.
AZO photographic paper 1910 – 1930
Writing on back. Glued piece of paper.
Quanah Parker, (born 1848?, near Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.—died February 23, 1911, Cache, near Fort Sill, Oklahoma), Comanche leader who, as the last chief of the Kwahadi (Quahadi) band, mounted an unsuccessful war against white expansion in northwestern Texas (1874–75). He later became the main spokesman and peacetime leader of the Native Americans in the region, a role he performed for 30 years.
