The Captured
A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
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Grover Gardner
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Scott Zesch
About this listen
On New Year's Day in 1870, 10-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 living in a cave, all but forgotten by his family.
That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled upon his great-great-great-uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch traveled 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 historian's rigor and a novelist's eye, Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier in The Captured and offers one of the few nonfiction accounts of captivity.
©2004 Scott Zesch (P)2004 Blackstone AudiobooksCritic Reviews
"A fascinating, meticulously documented chronicle of the often-painful confrontations between whites and Indians during the final years of Indian Territory." (Booklist)
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- Anonymous User
- 13-10-2022
one of my favourites
I binge listened to this in 3 days. it is absolutely amazing. I highly recommend it.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-12-2021
Brilliant
Brilliantly written and the narration was well done.
Reading this book makes me sad, as it described a time that wasn’t that long ago which doesn’t exist anymore.
Amazing stories.
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- Derek Ironside-Hughes
- 17-10-2022
What A Story
Loved this book expertly written and spoken. His voice took you to those times. I would recommend this book for a trip back to the American West.
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- Anne
- 17-04-2022
Highly recommended
Splendid book, and narration! an excellent insight into 19century American history of those sad times of upheaval.
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- Alloffroad
- 23-12-2023
brilliant
brilliant account of the yesteryears thanks for bringing Adolf Korn alive captivating book one of the best of this kind.
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