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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... captive's narrative . How long did he stay with the Indians ? " Three or four years , " recalled my grandfather ... captives were facts of bygone life in the Hill Country of central Texas , the rural region north of San Antonio and ...
... captives were white , though . The Plains Indian raiders abducted European - Americans , Mexicans , Mexican ... captive in the family brought this history uncomfortably close to home . My relative was a German- Texan boy , much like ...
... captive's grave . Soon the responses came pouring in . Like me , the descendants of other captives grew up hearing stories , and they were eager to pass them on . They also wanted to know how many of the family legends were true . One ...
... captives in their family trees . The captives ' trail took me from central Texas to the vast prairies of Oklahoma and Kansas and the open plains of the Texas Panhandle . I refused to let Uncle Adolph and the other white Indians rest in ...
... captive's " previous attitude toward the people of the second culture . " 1 Three of the captives I tracked - Adolph Korn , Rudolph Fischer , and Herman Lehmann - spent their childhood within thirty - five miles of one another , growing ...
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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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier Scott Zesch Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier Scott Zesch Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier Scott Zesch Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |