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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... raids , which sometimes led to the gruesome deaths of my fellow Texans . Having a captive in the family brought this history uncomfortably close to home . My relative was a German- Texan boy , much like myself , who grew up in a gentle ...
... raids was very real . On April 2 , 1862 , only a few months before the Reichenaus and the Korns arrived , the Saline community had been shocked by a triple murder . When a settler named Felix Hale went to his elderly neighbors ' place ...
... raids through Texas with the Co- 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 ...
... raids in Texas only got worse . That summer the people of the Saline Valley heard nothing but bad news from the surrounding set- tlements . On July 26 , 1865 , Indians attacked and killed a man named Henry Kensing in southern Mason ...
... raids , but he hadn't managed to profit from occupying the natives ' home . He had foundered in the cattle business , his American dream scrapped for salvage . Worst of all , he had failed his children . Louis Korn's mother had been ...
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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