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Mitt Romney Doesn't Deny Climate Change (or, Romney Commits Political Suicide)

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William Lewis6/03/2011 5:14:49 pm PDT

re: #115 Obdicut

Well, the hatred comes from them having just killed off most of his family. The knowledge it isn’t really explained where it comes from— whether he’d had some long association with them in the past, fought against them for a long period of time, or even been friends with them. Certainly the other settlers have been around them for just as long, but show a lot less knowledge of the Comanche. It’s a classic Ford ambiguity.

It’s based on the attack on Fort Parker in 1836 when then 9 year old Cynthia Ann Parker was captured and who later refused to return willingly to white society. In 1860 she was forcibly repatriated by the Texas Rangers and died a couple of years later. Her then 12 year old son, Quannah Parker later lead the Comanche in their final wars with the US.

Again, see “Empire of the Summer Moon” for the best telling of this tale. It explains much about why Texas is the way it is.