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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's The Captured paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier; offering a rare account of captivity."A carefully written; well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen." - Kirkus Reviews