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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier. By Scott Zesch. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. xx + 362 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.
This is a well-researched and well-written study of a handful of Indian captivities on the Texas frontier in the 187Os. Its author was motivated by the desire to know more about the life of Adolph Korn (1859-1895), his distant relative, who was captured at the age of ten by Comanche Indians. The Indian captivity tale has been a staple of the literature of the Americas since the publication of Mary Rowlandson's account from Puritan New England in 1682. Hundreds of accounts - factual, fictional, and fictionalized - have told the tale of the innocent abducted...