02027cam a2200325 4500 75467660 TxAuBib 20110512120000.0 060131s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780312317898 pbk. 0312317891 pbk. (OCoLC)63200562 TxAuBib Zesch, Scott. The captured : a true story of abduction by Indians on the Texas frontier / Scott Zesch. 1st St. Marting's Griffin ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006. xx, 362 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm. Lone Star Grant 2011. Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-344) and index. 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. 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 novelists eye, Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity. 20110512. Korn, Adolph, d. 1895. Comanche Indians Social life and customs. Indian captivities Texas. Apache Indians Social life and customs. Whites Texas Relations with Indians. Whites Texas Cultural assimilation. TXMOO