The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas FrontierSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007 M04 1 - 384 páginas 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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... Comanches or Apaches at about the same time , especially those who chose to talk about their experiences . One of them , Herman Lehmann , eventually got away from his Apache captors , only to join a group of Comanches rather than return ...
... Comanches in Okla- homa . I didn't know how I'd be received , for the Comanches hated the Texans in the old days and blamed them for all of their troubles . However , they encouraged me to come visit them . When I got to Law- ton , I ...
... Comanches and the German immigrants , because it might have some bearing on why my German ancestor became such a thorough Comanche con- vert . Anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell pointed out that Indianiza- tion depended on a number of ...
... Comanches and Sam Houston wanted . Shortly after Texas became an independent republic in 1836 , Mopechucope ( Old Owl ) and several other Penateka Comanche chiefs starting talking with Houston , the Texas president , about dividing the ...
... Comanches , who were able to satisfy their own needs from the land without taming it , the Germans seemed pitiful and pigheaded , waging war on nature rather than simply enjoying its bounty . Their scraggly beards repelled the Comanches ...
Contenido
In the Wilds | 117 |
Once and Always Indians | 239 |
In the Limelight | 263 |
The Trail Fades | 285 |
Dates and Places of Birth Capture | 301 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 333 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 345 |
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