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Title: QUANAH ROUTE DAY | CROSBYTON TEXAS 1910
- Author: Unknown
- Date: 1910
- Condition: See description
- Inches: 1 3/4 x 4 [Badge]
- Centimeters: 4.44 x 10.16 [Badge]
- Product ID: 308758
Only Known Example of Legendary Texan Homage Badge
Badge featuring portrait of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, with QUANAH ROUTE DAY below, attached to a silk ribbon with imprint, CROSBYTON, TEXAS 1910. This badge was undoubtedly worn by an attendee of the Texas State Fair in October 1910, when Quanah Parker and his family were the featured guests for "Quanah Route Day."
Born in Wichita Falls, TX to noted war chief, Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, a well-known captive and convert to the Indian way of life, Quanah grew to become the last great Comanche chief who often navigated between two worlds. He led an unsuccessful attack against settler expansion in northwest Texas (1874–75) as an act of defiance to move his people to a reservation but later persuaded other Comanche bands to conform and move to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma.
He became a successful businessman by amassing $40,000 worth of stock in the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway and made powerful friends such as Teddy Roosevelt. Yet, he refused to cut his braids, convert to Christianity, and remain monogamous. He died in 1911 of an unknown illness while visiting the Cheyenne Reservation.
Condition
Badge with original pin, pin rusted, silk ribbon with some wear, fraying at bottom, few stains.