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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