quanah leads his tribe off and away and mackenzie and his men are forced to hunger down and they are lucky they do not freeze to death. essentially, quanah got away. he schooled mackenzie in this plains were for. one of the key things is escape. but very few instances in history where a commander takes a village into the field against his adversary and wins. that is the kind of commander quanah parker was. he was quite brilliant. he obviously escaped to fight another day. he would not surrender until 1875 after almost every single one of their food source had been killed. that is all i want to say tonight. i would be happy, do we have time for questions? i am happy to answer questions. >> [inaudible] mr. gwynne: that was her cousin rachel parker plumber. >> [inaudible] do you have access to it? mr. gwynne: yes. this is one of the great things that you have at your disposal. rachel plumbers diary which is an unbelievable account for the very few captives she was taken for many months on to the planes so it is rather extraordinary. it is published. i also held the original. yes. i don't

so they send mackenzie 600 bluecoats ride out and they will get the comanches and the target is the village, quanah parker has a village. we don't know exactly how big the village was but we think 200 tepees. it was the village was when the and children and dogs and cattle and horses. and what happened was actually rather astonishing. parker gave mackenzie the most extraordinary lesson in plains warfare. the indians were vastly outnumbered. they have a breach loading repeating rifles. the comanche's if they had anything at all it was smooth bore muskets but mostly bows and arrows. let me see if i can briefly describe to you what this bottle was. it was -- this battle was. it was called the battle of blenko canyon. the bluecoats they're pretty tough people. there were not complete idiots . they are playing cat and mouse where quanah parker stampedes forth, the bluecoats calgary move forward and locate the village and they will move on the village. they march to where the villages but it is gone. so they send the scouts out to figure out where it was. what has happened is they get to a point where th