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At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken tolive as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chiefand the mother of a young warrior destined to become the great chief Quanah Parker.But in 1861, Parker and her infant daughter are recaptured and returned against theirwill to a white settlement. This moving story is a riveting examination of the conflictsbetween Native Americans and white settlers.