Rachel Plummer's 21 months among the Comanche as a prisoner became a sensation when she wrote a book about her captivity, "Rachael Plummer's Narrative of Twenty One Months' Servitude as a Prisoner Among the Commanchee Indians", which was issued in Houston in 1838. This was the first narrative about a captive of Texas Indians published in the Republic of Texas, and it was a sensation not just there, but in the United States and even abroad. In 1844, after Rachel's death, her father published a revised edition of her book as an appendix to his "Narrative of the Perilous Adventures, Miraculous Escapes and Sufferings of Rev. James W. Parker". Her book is considered an invaluable look at Comanche culture before environmental destruction, disease, starvation, and war forced them onto reservations.