The Last CaptiveEncino Press, 1972 - 161 Seiten Austin, 1972. xxi, 161p., dj. 6-1/2 x 10. The story of Herman Lehmann, whose tale was first published in 1899, is retold with the author's commentary. Lehmann gives an account of his life as an Indian warrior with the Apache and Comanche tribes, and his subsequent readjustment to living in the white man's world. The captive sympathized wholly with the Indian way of life, and returned most reluctantly to the white world. Jenkins Basic Texas Book 124 (C) "One of the most remarkable accounts of life among hostile Texas Indians." |
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