Does The Searchers movie have any basis in fact?
Teresa Smith
Jasper, Alabama
The Searchers was written loosely around the story of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker who was abducted on May 19, 1836, and lived nearly 25 years with the Comanche. She married and had three children; only her oldest, Quanah, would live to adulthood, achieving fame as the Comanches’ last chief. After the Texas Rangers rescued her, she never adjusted to white society.
Cynthia Ann did not have an Ethan Edwa

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- Rough Drafts 12/13
- Durango, Colorado
- The Two-Reel Texas Rascal
- Courage Under Fire
- Home Brewed Gun Show
- Geronimo!
- Tracks that Speak
- The Frontier Christmas Trail
- Rat Pack Troopers
- The Flawed Gentleman Bandit
- Getting Shotgun Loaded
- The credits for Tombstone list a Wyatt Earp III in the cast. What is his relationship to the original Wyatt?
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- A Literary Life of Adventure
- “Free as the Winds,” Red Cloud Soared Above the Rest
- A Timeless Tale of an American Family
- Christopher Price
- A Cement Pudding
- The Three Godfathers
- A Rope for a Rat
- What are tintypes?
- How were guns cleaned in the Old West?
- Does The Searchers movie have any basis in fact?
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- Jeffrey Richardson’s favorite reads
- Hero’s Triumph and Tragedy