The Captured - Scott Zesch - 2005
A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
By: Scott Zesch
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-06-05
Categories: History, Native American
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
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 Audiobooks
Critic 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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