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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... manches , Apaches , and Kiowas had hunted deer in those brushy hills and buffalo on the grassy flats below . On that same ground , Native Americans and immigrant Americans had fought some of their last , desperate battles over who would ...
... manches , recalled : " [ W ] e fearlessly went to the ranches and stole horses out of pens in the daytime . The white people would dash into their houses whenever we appeared , and we would go boldly into the pens and get the horses ...
... manches captured a thirteen - year - old boy , Rudolph Fischer , close to his parents ' farm outside Fredericksburg . Ten days after that , Eli Mc- Donald and his sister - in - law , Gill Taylor , were killed by Kiowas in ad- jacent ...
... manches , they had no central government . The scattered tribal groups made their collective decisions in local village councils . Nowadays the Comanche Nation is headquartered in a sprawling , modern complex on a low hill nine miles ...
... manche territory . That was nothing compared to what they planned to do . The Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas had purchased rights to settle German colonists throughout the Fisher - Miller Land Grant , a tract ...
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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