Quanah was a Comanche warrior, and the son of Cynthia Parker, an Anglo women kidnapped by Comanches in the 1850s. That story certainly was part of the inspiration, 100 years later, for John Ford's The Searchers. The film makes many "10 Greatest Films of All Time" lists--including Martin Scorcese's. The critic and scholar Gerry Peary suggests The Searchers is perhaps "the closest we come to 'the great American film.'" 
J.W. Burleson photo / Boquillas del Carmen, Coah.
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Saturday, June 7, 2014
Quanah Parker, John Ford, Karl May, and Llano Estacado
Quanah was a Comanche warrior, and the son of Cynthia Parker, an Anglo women kidnapped by Comanches in the 1850s. That story certainly was part of the inspiration, 100 years later, for John Ford's The Searchers. The film makes many "10 Greatest Films of All Time" lists--including Martin Scorcese's. The critic and scholar Gerry Peary suggests The Searchers is perhaps "the closest we come to 'the great American film.'" 
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