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Guthrie, Texas

FORTS TRAIL REGION

A Quanah Parker Trail Arrow stands in Guthrie across the highway from the old King County Courthouse, now a museum. Nearby is the headquarters of 6666 Ranch, founded by Samuel Burk Burnett, friend of Quanah. Burnett and other cattlemen negotiated with Quanah to lease grazing lands in Indian Territory. For Burnett and Quanah, the business dealings were only one aspect of their relationship. They were also friends. When Quanah visited Burnett in Guthrie, he remembered being in the area back when he and other Comanches still roamed free. 

ARROW INSTALLATION


ARROW SCULPTOR

CHARLES SMITH

WITH EFFIGY OF

QUANAH

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MUSUEM

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    In the early 1900s, Quanah and his retinue camped on the Parker family ranch near Dumont. Cottle, King and Motley counties share a common Reservation Era history of friendship with Quanah and his family and companions. The Quanah Parker family relationship with the Parkers who ranched at Dumont lasted beyond the death of Quanah in 1911. (See 1920s photograph of Markum Parker and Baldwin Parker on the Cottle County page.)