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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... uncle led him to research all that is known today about the experiences of sev- eral Texas hill country children kidnapped by Indians in the 1800s . Most who survived the initial ordeal became Indian at heart and never quite reconciled ...
... uncle Adolph Korn's Indians in the same moment as we 1960s [ Peace Corps ] Volunteers found Africa : a colonized , rapidly west- ernizing culture slowly falling to pieces in , as anthropologists coldly de- fine it , a ' cultural ...
... uncle Adolph's life with the Indians seemed beyond reach . He'd died at the turn of the twen- tieth century , and the only relatives I'd ever known who could actu- ally remember him were Granny Hey's last surviving children . Aunt Kate ...
... uncle Adolph receded further into the realm of legend , soon to be lost to history . I call him Uncle Adolph by way of reclamation . In our family , we always referred to him as Adolph Korn , for he was never really one of us . But ...
... uncle Adolph had thrown aside all his old ways of thinking . Did he come to see his own people's morals as hypo- critical and untrustworthy ? Or were his dormant personality traits fi- nally coming out , once he was liberated from the ...
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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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