Peta Nocona

Peta Nocona (ca. 1820 -ca. 1864?) is a chief of the Comanche Nokoni band, who is the husband of Cynthia Ann Parker and the father of Quanah Parker.

Peta Nocona is strictly linked to the Nokoni band, having taken his wife in this band.

He leads his tribe during the extensive Indian Wars in Texas since the late 1840s until the 1860s.

He us the son of the Quahadi Comanche chief Pohebits-quasho ("Iron Jacket").

He becomes so renowned that a diffuse but erroneus belief asserts that the Nokoni (or Wanderers, or Travellers) band, which long predated his birth, was named after him.

'The city of Nocona, Texas is named after the Nokoni leader.

Despite Sul Ross's claim that Peta Nocona was killed at Pease River, his son insisted he was not present, and died several years later.

This claim is supported by Texas historian John Henry Brown.

Brown had already disputed the identity of the person killed at Mule Creek, before Quanah came onto the reservation, stating he was told the name of the man killed at Pease River was Mo-he-ew, not Peta Nocona.

Quanah then wrote an affidavit disputing his father's death: "while I was too young to remember the chief it is likely that Brown was correct" (but the killed warrior's name results to have been Nobah, a former captive adopted in the tribe).

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