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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... county ,, Texas , on Wednesday , Feb. 5th , 1868 , my son LEE TEMPLE FRIEND , aged eight years , black eyes , light hair and fair complexion : also ,, my neighbor's daughter , MALINDA CAUDLE eged seven , blue eyes , fair complexion a ...
... County , an area with a rich Native American past . Until my ancestors edged them out , the Co- manches , Apaches , and Kiowas had hunted deer in those brushy hills and buffalo on the grassy flats below . On that same ground , Native ...
... County , near the German - American settlement of Castell . They weren't one of the first families there ; Castell and its founders had al- ready survived thirteen winters by 1860. The Korns arrived to find a close - knit , orderly ...
... County was far from the battlefronts . Even basic foodstuffs were hard to come by . " We had to eat careless weeds and lambsquar- ter , " Granny Hey remembered . " Supper for us children was usually a bowl of mush without milk or cream ...
... County pioneer wrote in 1868 : " I would get away from here if I could but I am too poor .... I have been living on the frontier since 1853 and I now curse the day when I com- menced it . " 2 When Indians came around their homesteads ...
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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