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John Steinbeck 1939 - colorized - colorization - color

February 14, 2019

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) Image source license John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Quanah Parker - colorized - colorization - color

February 12, 2019

Chief Quanah Parker of the Kwahadi Comanche 1892 Image source license The last Chief of the Quahadi Comanche , Parker was both a major resistor to white settlers, as well as a leader in the tribe’s adjustment to reservation life. Quanah was born around 1845 to Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker , a white captive of the Comanche, near the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. After 24 years of living with the Indians, Quanah’s mother was recaptured in the Battle of Pease River by Texas Rangers. After his wife’s recapture, Quanah’s father was a broken and bitter man and soon died. However, before his death, he told Quanah of his mother’s capture from the whites and with that, other tribesmen soon began to call him a half-breed and before long, the group split. Source