The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier - Paperback

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier - Paperback

MSRP$21.00 USD
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier - Paperback

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier - Paperback

MSRP$21.00 USD

"A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen." - Kirkus Reviews

On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comanches, 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.

That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historians rigor and a novelist's eye, Zesch's The Captured paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity.

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