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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... least listened to their tales more carefully . However , by 1970 they'd all died and taken their sto- ries with them . Virtually no eyewitnesses were left . Eighteen years later , I no longer had my grandmother to tell - xvii - PROLOGUE.
A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier Scott Zesch. later , I no longer had my grandmother to tell me what she'd heard . As each generation passed , our elusive uncle Adolph receded further into the realm of legend ...
... later films such as Little Big Man and Dances with Wolves , in which vindictive U.S. soldiers splattered even more blood in the Indian camps . I suspected that the truth fell some- place outside these extremes , but I didn't know where ...
... later became wealthy would work twelve hours a day for fifty cents , and save thirty - five cents of it . " Even when the settlers had money , there wasn't much food for sale . The Korn children didn't attend school - there wasn't any ...
... in his later years , perhaps only half jokingly : " We shot the white men , because it was better to shoot them than to let them starve . " 6 Three years after the murders of 1862 , the people - - 13 . NEW YEAR'S D DAY.
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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