NOTE: This book has been scanned then OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has been applied to turn the scanned page images back into editable Text. This means that the text CAN be re-sized, searches performed, & bookmarks added, unlike Kindle Books that are only scanned.We have added an Interactive Table of Contents & an Interactive List of Illustrations. This means that the reader can click on the BLUE AND/OR underlined links in the Table of Contents or the List of Illustrations & be instantly transported to that Chapter or Illustration.To make reading easier, especially on smaller mobile devices, we have added the following reading aids: an indent to the first line of each paragraph, a page break after after each chapter, each Illustration & any page(s) with a footnote(s).Our aim is to provide the reader AND the collector with long out-of-print classic books (OOP) at realistic prices. If you load your mobile device(s) with our books, not only will you have fingertip access to a large library of Antiquarian and Out-Of-Print material at reasonable prices, but you can mark them up electronically & always have them for immediate reference, without worrying about damage or loss to expensive bound copies.We have inexpensively published other interesting non-fiction classics on history, science, reference, etc in. E-book format, including "An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre." With Table of Contents And List of Illustrations that are Interactive) (ASIN: B0081XAX6O), "On The Border With Crook" (With Table of Contents And List of Illustrations that are Interactive) (ASIN: B007VQB0GE) both by this same author, & Civil War titles, such as Abraham Palmer's The History Of The Forty-eighth Regiment New York State Volunteers, In The War For The Union: 1861-1865 (With Table of Contents And List of Illustrations that are Interactive) (ASIN: B0086I5VEI).We will be adding to our titles regularly, look for our offerings on Amazon."Tales of the Texas Rangers in Indian Warfare: Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker at the Massacre of Parker's Fort; 25 years among the Comanche; Her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, by Captain L. S. Ross, of the Texian Rangers" Texas Ranger Indian Wars Book 2, by James T. DeShields recounts from original sources, including the Texans involved, the story of Cynthia Ann Parker.Cynthia ann Parker was captured by the Comanche at the age of nine. She was "married" to the War Chief Peta Nocona and bore him several children among whom was Quanah Parker who became a great chief of the Comanche both before and after that tribe was settled on a reservation after their military defeats described in the book.After 25 years with the Comanche she was returned to her relatives, who had given her up as dead or lost to them forever. She had to relearn "civilization" in its entirety, including the english language.An interesting part of the romantic history of both the Texas Rangers, the state of Texas, and the men and women who forged Texas. A short book of approximately 18,000+ words, rare and long out-of-print in its 1914 bound version, it is now available in the e-book format for the reader interested in Texas and Texas Ranger history.