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

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Grover Gardner

10 Hours 34 Minutes

Blackstone Audiobooks

November 2004

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In 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by Indians. He thrived in the Comanches’ 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.

Then 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 and offers one of the few nonfiction accounts of captivity.

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  • Gabe J

    Great book! The listener starts off feeling sorry for the captives.... and then envies them. I particularly enjoyed the full circle the writer made. From death backward to capture.

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  • Anonymous

    Wow! I’ve read and listened to decent amount of books about West expansion and Native Americans, and this one is in my top 3 for sure, right next to Blood and Thunder and Empire of the Summer Moon. I really enjoyed it very much and would highly recommend it to everyone! Narrator too was 5/5!

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