Quanah Parker’s great-great-grandson draws standingroom-only crowd during Living History weekend

By Bev Odom on Thursday, October 10, 2024
Darrell Colson, 1st Lt. Commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), Charles Goodnight Frontier Reg. Camp 2280, presents Lance Tahmahkera, great-great-grandson of Quanah Parker, with a “local” basket of appreciation for his visit to Wellington following his 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4 Comanche story time at Collingsworth County Museum. The Red River Sun/Bev Odom
Darrell Colson, 1st Lt. Commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), Charles Goodnight Frontier Reg. Camp 2280, presents Lance Tahmahkera, great-great-grandson of Quanah Parker, with a “local” basket of appreciation for his visit to Wellington following his 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4 Comanche story time at Collingsworth County Museum. The Red River Sun/Bev Odom

WELLINGTON – A standing-room-only crowd of around 80 filled Collingsworth County Museum’s Ellis Art Center to hear special guest Lance Tahmahkera, of Burleson, the great-greatgrandson of Quanah Parker, at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4 during Wellington’s two-day Living History affair.

Tahmahkera’s passion for carrying on Comanche stories became evident as his somewhat raspy voice described the tribe’s comp…