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"Every Day Seemed to be a Holiday"
Booth, a neighbor who lived about two miles from the home from which
we had been taken.
Being a pioneer myself and a maker of Texas history I have tried to
give some idea of the trials and hardships suffered by many of the early
Texas Settlers.
Mrs. J. D. Bell
Denton, Texas
[Some copies of Bianca's typescript include the following postscript
on a separate page:]
Peta Nocona, husband of Cynthia Ann Parker, and father of the late
Quanah Parker was main chief of the Comanche tribes."9 Tabernanaka
was chief of the tribe I was with.40 Esserbaby was chief of the tribe Dot
was with.41
Mrs. J. D. Bell
9" Actually, there was no "main chief of the Comanche tribes." According to Parker family tra-
dition, Peta Nocona was a Nokoni Comanche who left the Nokoms and joined the Quahada
Comanches as a chief. Jo Ella Powell Exley, Frontier Blood: The Saga of the Parker Family (College
Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2oo1), 138. Bianca reportedly knew Quanah Parker while
she was with the Nokonis. Dazly Tzmes Herald (Dallas), Feb. 17, 1939, part 2, p. 2.
40 Blanca's reference to Tabenanaka (Sun's Noise or Hears the Sunrise) as the chief of her
group is curious, since he was a local band leader of the Yampanka Comanches, and she was
recovered from the Nokonis. The band affiliations and interrelations of the Comanche actors in
the Babb saga, however, do suggest that the Nokonis were more closely connected to the
Yamparikas than is typically recognized.
41 "Esserbaby" could refer either to isa habit, "wolf lying down," who was apparently a Nokonm
though of minor importance, or esz habut, Milky Way, the Penateka chief who visited the
Nokonms to negotiate Dot's release. Kavanagh, Comanche Political History, 372.20oo03
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