Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Zesch, Scott

The captured : a true story of Indian abduction on the Texas frontier / Scott Zesch. - 1st ed. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004. - xx, 362 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-344) and index.

Prologue: the trail --
A fate worse than death. New year's day ; Germans in Comanche land ; The bosom of the Comanches ; Legion valley ; Warriors in training --
In the wilds. As mean an Indian as there was ; Searchers and Quakers ; Death on the red river ; The long way home ; Resisting the reservation --
Redemption. Once and always Indians ; In the limelight ; The trail fades.

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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Korn, Adolph 1859-1900


Indian captivities--Texas
Apache Indians--Social life and customs
Comanche Indians--Social life and customs
Whites--Relations with Indians--Texas
Whites--Cultural assimilation--Texas

E87.K76 / Z47 2004

976.40049725 Zes 15