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The captured : a true story of Indian abduction on the Texas frontier / Scott Zesch.

By: Publication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0312317875
  • 9780312317874
  • 9780312317898
  • 0312317891
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 976.4004/9725 22
LOC classification:
  • E87.K76 Z47 2004
Contents:
Prologue: the trail -- A fate worse than death. New year's day ; Germans in Comanche land ; The bosom of the Comanches ; Legion valley ; Warriors in training -- In the wilds. As mean an Indian as there was ; Searchers and Quakers ; Death on the red river ; The long way home ; Resisting the reservation -- Redemption. Once and always Indians ; In the limelight ; The trail fades.
Summary: On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and index.

Prologue: the trail -- A fate worse than death. New year's day ; Germans in Comanche land ; The bosom of the Comanches ; Legion valley ; Warriors in training -- In the wilds. As mean an Indian as there was ; Searchers and Quakers ; Death on the red river ; The long way home ; Resisting the reservation -- Redemption. Once and always Indians ; In the limelight ; The trail fades.

On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family.

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