PICTURING QUANAH PARKER
hile people may still debate who was the most photographed American of the 19th century (Abraham Lincoln? George Custer? Ulysses S. Grant?), there is no doubt who was the most photographed American Indian—Quanah Parker. The Comanche chief sat for more portraits than even the indisputably photogenic Apache leader Geronimo or Sioux leader Sitting Bull. He had the advantage over such noteworthy earlier chiefs as the Shawnee Tecumseh and the Apaches Cochise and Victorio, as
