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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... Land 22 CHAPTER THREE : The Bosom of the Comanches 41 CHAPTER FOUR : Legion Valley 65 CHAPTER FIVE : Warriors in Training 88 PART TWO : In the Wilds 117 CHAPTER SIX : As Mean an Indian as There Was 119 CHAPTER SEVEN : Searchers and ...
... land for cattle , the gently sloping hills covered with sturdy oaks and flowering yuccas . Hardly anyone lived there : just a handful of fellow German immigrants and a few soldiers and some drifters from the southeastern states ...
... land . Rainfall is erratic , and the area is prone to drought . Cattle that are round - bellied and healthy during the spring , when the countryside is flowering with bluebonnets , wine- cups , and red Indian blankets , may be wasting ...
... land : deer , turkey , rabbits , wild plums and grapes , persimmons , even prickly pear apples and weeds . Occasionally , the native plants they ate turned out to be poisonous , making them seriously ill . They didn't do much canning -7 ...
... land was unfenced ; some of their wild cows strayed and never returned , or were stolen by rustlers or In- dians . Living conditions plummeted during the Civil War , even though Mason County was far from the battlefronts . Even basic ...
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |