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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... tribe was he with ? No one knew . His story had so many gaps and inconsistencies that I doubted whether much of it was true . Still , it wasn't implausible . Indians and their captives were facts of bygone life in the Hill Country of ...
... tribes . Many came to prefer the Native American way of life , resisting attempts to rescue them . Long after they were forced to return to their former families , they held fast to what they'd learned while they were away . Some ...
... tribes who inhabited this conti- nent before my ancestors arrived , and popular culture had only reinforced familiar ... tribe . Like me , most contemporary Comanches have captives in their family trees . The captives ' trail took me ...
... tribe needed more fighting men to resist the Texas invaders . There's no record of what she said , but she must have put up spirited argument , for the boy was spared . This Comanche woman helped Adolph travel two miles to the next camp ...
... tribal chiefs if they knew what had become of Adolph Korn . Despite this show of authority , the army , the governor ... tribe was holding him . The commissioner in Washington directed the agents under his authority to inquire among 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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