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Book Review


Frontier Blood: The Saga of the Parker Family. By Jo Ella Powell Exley. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. xiii + 331 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

     Frontier Blood, Jo Ella Powell Exley's latest work, offers interesting and important background and context for the time-honored Texas stories of Parker's Fort, Comanche captives Rachel Plummer and Cynthia Ann Parker, and Parker's son, Comanche leader Quanah Parker. The author categorizes her work as a biography of "the Parker clan, a strange and often brilliant people" (p. xi). The narrative spans the entire nineteenth century (from 1781, the year of Daniel Parker's birth in Virginia, until 1911, the year of Quanah's death in Oklahoma) and half a continent as the Parkers move west to Texas. . . .


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