It was a small skirmish but it was the place where Cynthia Ann Parker was taken from the Comanches and separated from her son Chief Quanah Parker. This is also the site of where Chief Peta Nocona (her husband) was killed. Their son, Quanah, escaped. Her young daughter Prairie Flower was also captured along with her. Cynthia Ann Parker always thought her two sons (Quanah and Peanuts) were lost on the prairie. She never knew that Quanah became the chief. Her daughter died in 1864. Cynthia Ann died of the influenza in 1870.

Jack Crane

Cynthia Parker

The Battle of Pease River occurred on December 18, 1860, near the town of Margaret, Texas in Foard County, Texas, United States. The town is located between Crowell and Vernon within sight of the Medicine Mounds just outside present-day Quanah, Texas. A monument on that spot marks the site of the famous battle between the Comanche Indians under Peta Nocona and a detachment of Texas Rangers and militia under Ranger Captain "Sul" Ross. The battle was fought to protect the lives and property of white settlers in the area who had encroached on land historically belonging to the Comanches. This very small skirmish gradually acquired an unwarranted grandiosity as a major Texan historical event primarily due to the self-promotion by Sul Ross who claimed that "the great Comanche confederacy was forever broken, the blow was decisive, their illustrious chief slept with his fathers and with him were most of his doughty warriors."

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle of Pease River
• Gwynne, S. C., 2010, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian: Simon & Schuster, New York, 371p.