The Captured: An Unforgettable True Story of Abduction and Survival on the Texas Frontier

Carl: good value

United States on Sep 15, 2023

Carl Lovett: I love this book. I had already read it 3 times via IBooks on my phone. So I finally realized that I needed to buy a hard cover copy of this book. Thankfully Amazon had one. The seller shipped it fast and packaged the book superbly to ensure it was not damaged. If you like true stories about our nation’s history then this book will be a must have for you.

United States on May 15, 2023

joanne: brilliant book good service fast delivery

United Kingdom on Oct 10, 2022

Mike Crawford: I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this CD on my way to work each morning. There was no shying away from harsh realities, intriguing interactions and cultural challenges between the settlers, native persons and the government.

Australia on Sep 22, 2022

Carolyn Wheatcroft: Book arrived in a timely manner, in fact I believe it was early. Very well written, didn't pull any punches but presented the Indian's side of the conflict with understanding. Heart wrenching detail about how the returned captives reacted to being "saved" from the so-called savages. This is to date the best thing I have read on the subject. Loved Empire of the Summer Moon, but this one went further, felt like I was there witnessing it. I highly recommend both of them.

Canada on Aug 08, 2021

Lenise de Souza Ferreira: Ótimo livro , envolvente do início ao fim .

Brazil on Apr 08, 2021

D. Eppenstein: About a month ago I read "News of the World", a book with a rather popular following. I thought the book was okay but was otherwise not terribly impressed. However, I was intrigued by the subject of white children being captured by Native Americans and then being reluctant or even hostile to the opportunity to return to their white families. In her end note the author suggested that if the reader were interested in the psychology of captive children then they should read Scott Zesch's "The Captured". Sounded like good advice and Amazon made another sale from yours truly. Now that I've read "Captured" I am rating it 3 stars which by no means indicates that I thought this was a less than satisfactory book. In fact it is a very good book but it failed to deliver what I had hoped to learn from it.

The book begins as a search by the author into the experience of his great uncle who was in fact a child captured by the Comanche Indians. Because there is very little in the way of written records of the experiences for most of these children the author had to resort to extrapolating his uncle's ordeal from the lives of other children from the same area and for which there was more...

United States on Jan 25, 2018

Maxine: A very good book and enjoyed reading about the 1800's and true history. My late husbands parents lived in the area the story took place and this made it much more enjoyable for me. My late husbands mother and step father are buried in Squaw Creek Cemetery which the land was giving to his step fathers family, early German settlers by the Indians. Would recommend this book for anyone who loves History. Squaw Creek Cemetery - Hilltop, Gillespie County, Texas It's called the Nixon Cemetery which was my late husbands step dad's family. You can look up the area on Google by that title.Directions: from Hilltop take RR 648 NW 6.2 miles; then south on Squaw Creek Rd. .5 miles; then west on Nixon Cemetery Rd. approx. .7 miles
Marker #: 5171010117
Year Dedicated: 1992
Size, type: 27" x 42"
Last reported condition: No report
Squaw Creek Cemetery - On their way west from Arkansas to California about 1856, the family of Francis Marion Nixon and his wife, Catherine Elliot, was forced to detour south from the North Texas Plains to this area to obtain water and forage for their livestock. After first camping on a hill near the Mason/Gillespie County line, thereafter referred to as...

United States on Jul 09, 2015

Gloria E.: "A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier." Zesch tells the story of several persons who were abducted by the Indians (Native Americans). In the 1800s, many children, most of them white children, were taken by the Plains Indians and adopted into the tribes. When attempts to rescue them came, many resisted. They preferred the Indian way of life and found it very difficult in returning to the world from which they had been taken. Many remained loyal to their Indian family; Many continuously attempted to return to them. The book is interesting and informative but I must say that toward the end, it became a tedious read.

United States on Jan 31, 2013

inga: Durch Zufall bin ich beim Stöbern nach Literatur über die Geschichte der Native Americans auf dieses Werk gestoßen und habe es spontan bestellt. Ich fand es derart spannend zu lesen, dass ich es kaum beiseite legen konnte, bevor ich es durch hatte.

Der Autor ist ein Nachkomme des von Comanchen entführten 10-jährigen Adolphe Korn, der mehrere Jahre bei diesem Stamm verbrachte und dort als "warrior" Anerkennung fand. Nach seiner Rückkehr zur deutschstämmigen, in Texas ansässigen Familie konnte er sich nicht mehr in die "weiße" Gesellschaft integrieren und lebte seine letzten Jahre zurückgezogen in einer Höhle.

Er hat nie über seine Erfahrungen bei den Comanchen gesprochen, so dass der Autor, neugierig geworden, eine intensive, wissenschaftlich fundierte Recherche über das Schicksal seines Vorfahren begann. Dabei stieß er auch auf Materialen, die das Schicksal weiterer "white captives" betraf und über deren Leben wesentlich mehr zu erfahren war, als über das Schicksal Adolphe Korns. Teilweise berühren sich jedoch die Lebensläufe der anderen Jungen mit dem seines Vorfahren, so dass er indirekt auch dessen Geschichte nachvollziehen konnte.

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Germany on Apr 05, 2010