The Searchers (65 page)

Ranald S. MacKenzie's Official Correspondence Relating to Texas, 1871–75.
Ernest Wallace, ed. Lubbock: West Texas Museum, Association, 1967.

Report of the Secretary of War, Vol. I.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1869.

Richardson, Rupert N.
The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement: A Century and a Half of Savage Resistance to the Advancing White Frontier
. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1933.

Rister, Carl Coke.
Border Captives
. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1940.

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Border Command: General Phil Sheridan in the West
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1944.

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Comanche Bondage
. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1955. Includes annotated reprint of Sarah Ann Horn's Narrative.

Robson, Lucia St. Clair.
Ride the Wind
. New York: Random House, 1982.

Roosevelt, Theodore.
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.

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The Winning of the West
. Seven volumes. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907.

Rowlandson, Mary White.
Narrative of the Captivity and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.
Lancaster: Carter, Andrews & Company, 1828. (William B. Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, 1650–1920.)

Scott, Hugh L.
Some Memories of a Soldier
. New York: The Century Co., 1928.

Sides, Hampton.
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
. New York: Doubleday, 2006.

Slotkin, Richard.
The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890
. New York: Atheneum, 1985.

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Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.

Smith, Coho.
Cohographs
. Fort Worth: Branch-Smith, 1976.

Smith, Henry Nash.
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Stanley, Henry M.
My Early Travels and Adventures in America
. London: 1895. Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

Stewart, Omer Call.
Peyote Religion: A History
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Tatum, Lawrie.
Our Red Brothers and the Peace Policy of Ulysses S. Grant
. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1899.

Texas by Terán: The Diary Kept by Manuel de Mier y Terán on His 1828 Inspection of Texas
. Jack Jackson, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.

Tilghman, Zoe A.
Quanah: The Eagle of the Comanches
. Oklahoma City: Harlow Publishing, 1938.

Wallace, Ernest, and E. Adamson Hoebel.
The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952.

Webb, Walter Prescott.
The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense
. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965.

White, E. E.
Experiences of a Special Indian Agent
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.

White, Richard.
“It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own.”
Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1991.

Wilbarger, J. W.
Indian Depredations in Texas
. Austin: Hutchings, 1889 (reprinted by Austin: Eakin Press, 1985).

Zesch, Scott.
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.

Articles

Anderson, Adrian N., “The Last Phase of Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie's 1874 Campaign Against the Comanches,”
West Texas Historical Association Year Book
, 40 (1964), 74–81.

Austin, Stephen F., “Journal of Stephen F. Austin on His First Trip to Texas, 1821”
Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association
, VII:4, April 1904, 286–307.

“‘Every Day Seemed to be a Holiday': The Captivity of Bianca Babb,” Daniel J. Gelo and Scott Zesch, eds.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
, CVII, 1, July 2003.

Birdsong, Neda, “Cynthia Ann Parker” (as told to Paul Wellman),
Barb Wire Times
, Oct. 1968.

“Corona Helps Texas Opera in Premiere,”
Dallas Times Herald
, Feb. 17, 1939.

“The Death of Nocona,” Rupert N. Richardson, ed.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
, 1992.

DeShields, James T., “Indian Wars in Texas III,”
United Service, A Quarterly Review of Military and Naval Affairs (1879–1905
); Oct. 1885, 13:4.

Detrick, C. H., “Quanah Parker, Gentleman,”
Wichita Magazine
, April 23, 1930.

Dixon, Olive King, “Fearless and Effective Foe, He Spared Women and Children Always,”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
, April 12, 1936.

“The Frontier and Its Defense,”
The White Man
, Weatherford, Texas, 1:18, Sept. 13, 1860.

Gelo, Daniel J., “ ‘Comanche Land and Ever Has Been': A Native Geography of Nineteenth-Century Comancheria,”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
CIII:3, January 2000.

Gentry, A. D., “The Runaway Scrape,”
Frontier Times
4:6, August 1927, 9–12.

Harger, Charles Moreau, “The Government's Gift of Homes,”
Outlook
68:16, Aug. 17, 1901.

Harmon, George D., “The United States Indian Policy in Texas, 1845–1860,”
Mississippi Valley Historical Review
17:3, Dec. 1930.

Harris, Charles W., “The Red River War of 1874–75: The End of an Era on the Great Plains,”
Red River Valley Historical Review
3, Spring 1978.

Hodge, Kelly, “Forty Acres Arias: UT Opera Theatre Debuts Cynthia Parker,”
Fanfare
, 3:2, Winter 1985.

“Hugh McLeod's Report on the Council House Fight,” March 20, 1840, Texas State Library and Archives Commission,
www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/indian/war/mcleod-mar1840-1.html
.

Jones, Douglas C., “The Grave of Quanah Parker: A Case Study in Persuasive Communication and Hostile Attitudes,”
Public Relations Quarterly
, 14:4, 1970.

Jones, Lawrence T., “Cynthia Ann Parker and Pease Ross: The Forgotten Photographs,”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
, June 1990.

“Journal of the Permanent Council (Oct. 11–27, 1835),”
Texas Historical Association Quarterly
, VII:4, April 1904.

“The Journal of Ranald S. Mackenzie's Messenger to the Kwahadi Comanches,” Ernest Wallace, ed.
Red River Valley Historical Review
3, Spring 1978.

Kracht, Benjamin R., “Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Opening,” digital.library-okstate.edu/encyclopedic/entries/k/ki020.html.

Lee, Max, “Daniel Parker: Politician, Baptist, and Anti-Mission Missionary,”
Texas Baptist History
6 (1986), 1–9.

Lutz, Ella Cox, “Quanah Parker: The Last Comanche Chief,”
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
, n.d.

Mattinson, R. F., “A Story of Old Fort Parker,”
Groesbeck Argus
, 1875, in
Frontier Times
, 13:8, June 1936.

McMurtry, Larry, “The Conquering Indians,”
New York Review of Books
, 55:9, May 29, 2008.

———“Texas: The Death of the Natives,”
NYRB
, 53:14, Sept. 21, 2006.

Miller, Edgar K., “A Visit to the Homes of Quanah Parker and Geronimo,”
The Indian School Journal
, III:2, 1907.

“Mystery of Prairie Flower, Daughter of Chief, Solved,”
Wichita Falls Times
, May 3, 1959.

Parker, Baldwin, “Life of Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief,” August 29, 1930 (PPHM).

Parker, Baldwin, Jr., “Quanah Parker Lives,” (as told to Bill Schardin)
Focus
, 3:4, Autumn 1985.

Parker, James W., “Defense of James W. Parker against Slanderous Accusations Preferred Against Him,” 1839 (Bancroft).

Pearce, Roy Harvey, “The Significances of the Captivity Narrative,”
American Literature
19 (1947–8), 1–20.

Peattie, Donald Culross, “The Ballad of Cynthia Ann,”
American Heritage
, 7:3, April 1956.

Pratt, R. H., “Indian Civilization: The Potency of Environment,”
The Independent
, 43:2202, Feb. 2, 1891.

Price, Byron H., “The Great Panhandle Indian Scare of 1891,”
Panhandle-Plains Historical Review
, LV, 1982.

“Quanah Lies Beside His Mother,”
Cache Register
, March 3, 1911.

“Rachel Plummer Narrative,” 1926, no publisher listed.

“Records of an Early Texas Baptist Church,”
Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association
, XI:2, Oct., 1907, pp. 85–156.

Reid, Jan, “The Warrior's Bride,”
Texas Monthly
, Feb. 2003.

Smith, Burton M., “Anti-Catholicism, Indian Education and Thomas Jefferson Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs,”
Canadian Journal of History
, 23:2, Aug. 1988.

Sneed, R. A., “The Reminiscences of an Indian Trader,” in
Chronicles of Oklahoma
, 14:2, June 1936.

“Story by Ex-Gov. J.P. St. John's Wife,”
Indian School Journal
, IX:12, Oct. 1909.

Tate, Michael L., “Comanche Captives: People Between Two Worlds,”
Chronicles of Oklahoma
, XXII:3, Fall 1994.

“A Texan of the Texans: Stories of Governor Ross as an Indian Fighter,”
Galveston Daily News
, June 30, 1890.

“Texas Indians—Report of Messrs. Butler and Lewis,” Letter from the Secretary of War, 29th Congress, 2d. Session, Doc. No. 76, Feb. 8, 1847.

“Triumph and Tragedy: Presidents of the Republic of Texas,” Texas State Archives and Library Commission,
www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/presidents/houston1/jas_parker_jun6_1837_3.html
.

West, Derek G., “The Battle of Adobe Walls,” in
The Battles of Adobe Walls and Lyman's Wagon Train 1874.
Canyon: Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1964.

Unpublished Papers and Manuscripts

Birdsong, Aubrey, “Reminiscences of Quanah Parker,” 1965 (Fort Sill).

Cochran, Walter C.,
Reminiscences
, 1930 (Briscoe).

Gholson, B. F.,
Recollections of B.F. Gholson, Told to J.A. Rickard, August 1928
(Briscoe).

Kiek, Marcus, “Brain-Tanned Buffalo Hide,”
www.primitiveways.com/buffalo_hide.html
.

Linzee, E. H., “Development of Oklahoma Territory,” self-published mimeograph, 1950 (Claude Hensley Collection, Western History Collection, University of Oklahoma).

O'Quinn, Eugene G., “Quanah—The Eagle: Half-White Comanche Chief,” 1981 (Van Zandt County Library of Genealogy and Local History).

Parker, Ben J., “Early Times in Texas and History of the Parker Family,” undated (Briscoe).

“Recollections of H.B. Rogers,” told to J. A. Rickard (Briscoe).

Rivaya-Martínez, Joaquín, “Becoming Comanches: Patterns of Captive Incorporation into Comanche Kinship Networks, 1820–1875.”

St. John, Susan Parker, “Notebook” (Briscoe).

Scott, Hugh, QP Interview with Captain Hugh Scott, 1897 (Fort Sill). Also available at Neeley Archive (PPHM).

“Skinning and Butchering a Bison,” video presentation, Panhandle-Plains Museum Historical Society, 2001 (PPHM).

Sommer, Charles H., “Quanah Parker: Last Chief of the Comanches,” mimeograph, Oklahoma Historical Society, August 1945 (OKHS).

Taulman, Araminta, Interviews with Mrs. R. H. King, July 5 and Sept. 13, 1926; and with Mrs. Turnbill, Sept. 24, 1926, handwritten notes (Briscoe).

———Interviews with Mrs. J. J. Nunally, 1926 (Ibid.).

Taulman, Joseph and Araminta, “First Regularly Organized and Constituted Protestant or Non-Catholic Church in Texas—Still in Existence,” 1937, unpublished (Briscoe).

———Taulman Notebook No. 8 (Ibid).

Archives and Collections

Ronald L. Davis Oral History Collection on the Performing Arts in America, DeGolyer Institute for American Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University

Frank S. Nugent Papers

Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (MPAA), Beverly Hills

Academy Oral History Program

Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington

John Ford Papers

L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Argosy Pictures Corporation Archives

Merian C. Cooper Collection

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

Harper & Row Papers

Maurice Zolotow Papers

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Warner Brothers Archives

C. V. Whitney Papers (CVW) (family-held), Saratoga Springs, NY

Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, Los Angeles

Alan LeMay Papers

Books

Aitchison, Stewart.
A Traveler's Guide to Monument Valley
. Stillwater, MN: Voyageur, 1993.

Anderson, Lindsay.
About John Ford
. London: Plexus, 1999.

Barden, Dan.
John Wayne: A Novel
. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

Blake, Michael F.
Code of Honor: The Making of Three Great American Westerns
. Lanham, MD.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003.

Bogdanovich, Peter.
John Ford
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

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Who the Hell's in It: Portraits and Conversations
. New York: Knopf, 2004.

Buscombe, Edward.
Injuns! Native Americans in the Movies
. London: Reaktion Books, 2006.

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The Searchers
. BFI Film Classics. London: British Film Institute, 2000.