Adaptations
The 1956 movie The Searchers, which was based on an Alan Le May novel, directed by John Ford, and featured John Wayne as an obsessed frontiersman searching for years for his kidnapped niece, is widely believed to have been principally based on Cynthia Ann Parker's story; Natalie Wood and her younger sister Lana Wood portray the kidnapped woman at different ages.
Cynthia Parker is a one-act opera composed by Julia Smith.
The Dutch writer Arthur Japin also wrote a book, "De Overgave" (The Surrender), about the life of the Parker family and the loss of Cynthia Ann.
The character Stands With A Fist in the 1990 movie Dances With Wolves is based on Cynthia Ann Parker.
"Season of Yellow Leaf" by Douglas C. Jones is the fictionalized story of Cynthia Parker's life.
"Gone the Dreams and Dancing", also by Jones, is the fictionalized story of Quanah Parker, Cynthia's son, after he surrendered at Ft. Sill Oklahoma and "walked the white man's road".
"Ride the Wind" by Lucia St. Clair Robson, a fictionalized account of Cynthia Ann's capture and life among the Comanches.
"Where the Broken Heart Still Beats" by Carolyn Meyer is a fictionalized account of Cynthia Ann's return to her American family.
2003 Graphic novel "Comanche Moon" by Jack Jackson depicting life of Cynthia Ann Parker upon her adoption by the Comanches up to the life and death of her famous son Quanah Parker.
1957 "The Hanging Tree" a collection of short stories by Western writer, Dorothy M. Johnson, the story "Lost Sister" is a fictionalized account of the recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker and her difficulty reintegrating into the white world
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