On May 19, 1836 Comanche warriors attacked Fort Parker, a small family outpost on the Navasota River, killing many of the adults and carrying away five captives. Cynthia Ann Parker, a child about 9 years old, was among them. Though the other four captives were eventually released, Cynthia Ann remained with the tribe who took her for almost 25 years. She forgot white language and white ways, married Chief Peta Nocona, and became the mother of Quanah, who became the last great warrior chief of the Comanches. When the Texas Rangers, under Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross and Charles Goodnight, recaptured her with her small daughter in December 1860, she had become so thoroughly Comanche that she longed to return to the tribe and died of a broken heart shortly after her young daughter.