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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... village seemed like a great expanse . It hadn't seemed nearly as far that morning , when they'd let the sheep drift upstream . Along the south edge of the Llano River , the herd was greedily ripping up the dry grass . The sheepdog ...
... village in Indian Territory . The Quahadas were the most bellicose division of the Comanches , the ones who refused to report to their Indian agent and made no treaties with the federal government . Their Their camps had the -18- THE ...
... village , just so they could earn the money he didn't have , and now one of them hadn't come home , and the other was traumatized . For all he knew , the Indians had bashed out Adolph's brains with a rock , just as they'd done a cou ...
... village councils . Nowadays the Comanche Nation is headquartered in a sprawling , modern complex on a low hill nine miles north of Lawton , Okla- homa . It's the center of tribal government , business , and social ser- vices , but I ...
... village were impoverished but industrious artisans and farmers who had left Germany for a number of reasons , including overpopulation , crop failures , and the desire to avoid conscription . They'd been lured to the wilderness of Texas ...
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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