Fort Parker massacre of his life, and most of his fortune, searching for his daughter Rachel, his grandson James, his niece Cynthia, and his nephew John Richard. After many near-death escapes, he finally settled with his family. John Wayne's character Ethan Edwards, in the John Ford Western "The Searchers", was modeled by author Alan Le May after Parker and others affected by child abductions. Former Dallas Morning News columnist Frank X. Tolbert in his book "An Informal History of Texas" entitled one of his book's chapters "Was Uncle James (Parker) The Villain" which expressed an entirely different take on the reverend. James W.
1956 Cotton Bowl Classic 1956 Cotton Bowl Classic The 1956 Cotton Bowl Classic featured the TCU Horned Frogs and the Ole Miss Rebels. It was the 20th Cotton Bowl Classic held. Both teams had 9–1 records. Ole Miss was trying to win their first bowl game since the 1948 Delta Bowl, which was also against TCU. TCU hadn't been to a bowl game since the 1952 Cotton Bowl Classic. On the game's first play, TCU quartback and returner Chuck Curtis injured his shoulder and broke two ribs. He sat out the rest of the game and was replaced by Dick Finney, who went 1