My father must have thought
That he was really doing something
When he turned his back on his fair skinned light colored Bowie background
Choosing my darker skinned mother with the exaggerated nose that she got from the Texas plains chief
Parra Wa Samen of the Yamparika Comanches
He really went out of his way to make a statement about something that was affecting his life
The oldest son of nine children he had grown up in Bowie country on the land
Amidst all of the country prejudices that had defined and given continuance to the Bowies
As he passed forty five he added a saying that he relied on for decision making
“It’s all going to turn out the same in the end.”
Sounds kind of fatalistic as an approach to existence
And theirs was a match against the grain
In choosing a descendant of Comanche royalty he didn’t know that he was only doing what James
himself had done choosing a Comanche royalty for a wife
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