Peta Nocona

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Peta Nocona

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1864 (aged 43–44)
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Comanche Chief.
In a written letter from 1910 to the Texas cattle rancher Charlie Goodnight, the noted Comanche Chief Quanah Parker shared the story of his father Peta Nocona and the fight at the Pease River. In his words, Quanah shared the following: "When the Pease River fight took place my father with the main body of Indians was about seventy or eighty miles away with his Indian wife my brother and myself. He knew nothing of the fight until the two survivors, of the last named fight returned to the camp and informed him of the great disaster which had befallen his people." and added "I remained with my father from this time until his death which occurred two or three years later, I was with him and saw him die and he was buried near the Antelope Hills in what I now believe is in Lipscond (Lipscomb) County near the south bank of the Canadian
Comanche Chief.
In a written letter from 1910 to the Texas cattle rancher Charlie Goodnight, the noted Comanche Chief Quanah Parker shared the story of his father Peta Nocona and the fight at the Pease River. In his words, Quanah shared the following: "When the Pease River fight took place my father with the main body of Indians was about seventy or eighty miles away with his Indian wife my brother and myself. He knew nothing of the fight until the two survivors, of the last named fight returned to the camp and informed him of the great disaster which had befallen his people." and added "I remained with my father from this time until his death which occurred two or three years later, I was with him and saw him die and he was buried near the Antelope Hills in what I now believe is in Lipscond (Lipscomb) County near the south bank of the Canadian


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