Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker (Great Episodes) by Carolyn Meyer tells the tale of the Comanche Raid on Fort Parker and its human aftermath.
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"Book Overview
At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken to live as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chief and 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 their will to a white settlement. This moving story is a riveting examination of the conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 0152006397
ISBN13: 9780152006396
Release Date: October 1992
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books<
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 0.80 lbs.
Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"
Age Range: 9 to 12 years
Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7"
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"Smithsonian Art Inventory
"Roy Weldert and W.H. Dietz fabricated the base of the memorial and ordered the sculpture from Italy. When the sculpture was installed in 1932, Fort Parker Memorial Park was known as Glenwood Memorial Cemetery.
The statue honors the Fort Parker "martyrs." On March 19, 1836, Comanche and Kiowa Indians attacked the fort, killing Silas M. Parker and four others, wounding three, and capturing several residents, including Cynthia Ann, the Parker's daughter.
Three members of the pioneer Parker family stand side-by-side atop shaft. Silas M. Parker, stands about to leave the Fort, holding the barrel of a rifle with his right hand, the butt of which rests on the ground. He holds the rim of his wide-brimmed hat with his left hand. He is dressed in a long-sleeved shirt, a vest, pants and knee-high boots. To his left is Lucy Parker wearing a head covering and full-length dress, her head turned towards her husband. Her left hand rests on the shoulder of their young daughter, Cynthia Ann Parker, who stands beside her. The sculpture is mounted upon a shaft with a square column at each corner. The shaft rests on a tiered base set on a wide platform with two steps on each side."