Myth, Memory, and Massacre
Carlson, Paul H. / Crum, Tom
In December 1860, along a creek in northwest Texas, a group of US Cavalry under Sgt. John Spangler and Texas Rangers led by Sul Ross raided a Comanche hunting camp, killed several Indians, and took three prisoners. One was the woman they would identify as Cynthia Ann Parker, taken captive from her white family as a child a quarter century before. This book exposes errors, falsifications, and mysteries that have contributed to a skewed understa...