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Written by Scott Zesch - Audio book narrated by Grover Gardner - Unabridged Nonfiction - 10 COMPACT DISCS - 10.5 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (November 2004)

NOTE: This LIBRARY EDITION is packaged in a sturdy, durable outer vinyl case that stands up to years of repeated use designed for library and rental circulation. Albums are shelvable, space-efficient, with at-a-glance spine titles.

This book is a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, History Book Club, the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Quality Paperback Book Club.

This is a riveting, untold history of survivors who suffered a “fate worse than death”—including the author’s own “white Indian” ancestor.

On New Year’s Day in 1870, ten-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.