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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... never quite reconciled to white society , remaining tragically adrift between two very different worlds . The Captured vividly tells it like it was with- out yielding to myth or political correctness . " -Elmer Kelton , author of The ...
... never existed ; They have become as though they had never been born . But their name lives on generation after generation . -EXCERPTED FROM ECCLESIASTICUS 44 Prologue The Trail If I'd been looking for it ,
... never would have found it . I came across it by accident on a hot , still afternoon in June . I was wandering alone through a neglected corner of the Gooch Cemetery in Ma- son , Texas , mulling over the names of forgotten pioneers who ...
... never explaining his absences when he returned . Other than those bits and pieces , no one seemed to know much about him , not even the most basic facts . For instance : How old was he when he was captured ? " About ten , " my ...
... never gave much thought to the people who came before me , not even to my family's own Indian warrior . By the time I was grown , the story of my uncle Adolph's life with the Indians seemed beyond reach . He'd died at the turn of the ...
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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