Hey listeners, change agents producer here. If you guys enjoyed our episode with Kevin Costner,

then Spotify highly recommends for you to also listen to the Legends of the Old West podcast.

It is the longest running podcast all about the American West. Enjoy this preview snippet of one of

their episodes. And I wanted to say a huge thank you to the Legends of the Old West podcast

team for also promoting change agents on their feed.

It all happened fast after the day that didn't seem all that extraordinary in the moment,

but eventually took on a life of its own, especially in Texas history and the history of the Texas Rangers.

That day was December 19, 1860, when a troop of rangers led by Lawrence Sullivan Ross and scout Charlie Goodnight recovered Cynthia Ann Parker.

She had been kidnapped by Comanche's 24 years earlier during an attack on her settlement

of Fort Parker in present-day Limestone County, east of Waco. Over time and with pain and difficulty,

she assimilated into Comanche culture and eventually married the Grey Warrior Chief, Petanakona.

That day in December 1860, 22-year-old Ranger Captain Sol Ross was leading an expedition in retaliation for recent Comanche

attacks. The Ranger Column stumbled upon a group of Pedinacona's band and quickly initiated a brief

engagement that would be called the Peace River Fight. The Rangers captured Cynthia Ann and her

infant daughter and brought them back to white settlements.

Cynthia Ann's re-assimulation into white society was even more difficult than her assimilation into Comanche society.

When she was recovered by the Rangers, and it's been said that the word captured is a better description at that point in her life,

she was forced to leave behind

her husband and her two sons, Quana and Pecos. She never saw them again, and there is still

debate about whether or not her husband, Chief Petta Nekona, was killed in the fight. Saul

Ross believed Nekona died in the engagement, but others, including Kwanah Parker, said

the chief survived the fight and died a few years later, likely in 1864.

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