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BOY CAPT BEING TRUE
This true narrative of the only known brothers to survive the hardships of captivity by hostile Indians.
219 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1977
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November 29, 2012
I picked this book up while at the Riverwalk in San Antonio, which if you haven’t done this makes for a nice weekend getaway. It’s the true story of the only brothers known to have escaped captivity from hostile Indians. They were captured while herding sheep near San Antonio in 1871; so it seemed appropriate to pick this book up while in the area. At the time of their capture, the oldest boy, Clinton Smith, was 11, and his younger brother, Jeff Davis Smith, was 9. They lived for almost five years with the Indians. The boys were separated after their capture, and Clinton became the adopted son of Tasacowadi, a Comanche chief. Brother Jeff was sold to Geronimo, branded as his property, and traveled with Geronimo’s band of Apaches.
The Boy Captives was first published in 1927, when Clinton, then in his sixties, told this account of his captivity. It was written on a Big Chief tablet, which I found interesting, because that’s how I wrote my book, Rendezvous Rock – all 190,000 words on yellow lined paper! The Boy Captives was actually printed twenty times between 1927 and 2009, and from what I have read, was funded by the Smith Family themselves. The book was also of interest to me because as a child living in the Elgin, Oklahoma area, I actually meet Jason Betzinez, who wrote the book "I Fought with Geronimo." I’ve also seen it titled as "I Rode with Geronimo." Betzinez also had a remarkable life and passed away in 1960 at 100 years of age. It continues to amaze me that I met someone who rode with Geronimo; that we are no farther removed from that era.
Although a book of this type is not a great literary work, it definitely is a useful addition to the history books. Clinton told the story to writer J. Marvin Hunter, who tells us that he wrote the story as Cinton told it, keeping the south Texas style of speaking used by Clinton. In some instances this book contradicts what the history books tell us. For example, the area Clinton traveled through when with the Comanches is far greater than history books tell us they roamed. According to Clinton, they traveled from Mexico to Canada and almost to the Pacific Ocean. Also, the amount of interaction between the various tribes was far more common than the history books allude to. With his Comanche tribe, Clinton had encounters with other Comanche tribes, plus Apache, Sioux, Cheyenne, Hopi, and some tribes I am unfamiliar with. Although most of these encounters were friendly, some were hostile.
What is fascinating about this book is how quickly Clinton was assimilated into the tribe. He became completely “Indianized” in five short years and conveys how he had a true affection for his adopted Comanche father. This reminded me of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was captured at the age of nine by the Comanches and lived with them for 24 years, completely forgetting her white ways, and marrying a Comanche chief. One of her children was the famous Comanche chief Quanah Parker. She was returned to the whites at age 34, but never adjusted to white society. Clinton was with the Indians for only five years yet became more Indian than white. He was an Indian boy named Bak-ke-ca-cho, who feared capture by the whites just as any true Comanche.
Most of the events told in this book are things that would have made an impression on a boy, eleven to sixteen years old. It isn’t an all-encompassing look at Indian life. He was so accepted into the tribe that he went on raiding parties with the warriors, and the main purpose of these raids was to steal horses, kidnap children, and kill whites. Being only a child, his job on these raids usually was to take care of the horses, although as he got older he couldn’t help being involved in the fighting a little. Later, when he was returned to the whites, when someone would ask him if he ever killed any whites, he would just hang his head down and not answer. The brutality was something that was just accepted, and in one place in the book, he states that “I saw so many people killed that I became used to it, and looked upon it as a common thing of no more concern than the killing of a cow.” Actually, the biggest portion of the book is about the many raids Clinton went on. Curiously absent in the book is any mention of rapes committed on these raids. Of course, during any war, atrocities are committed on both sides.
Some events recounted in the book were new to me. Before Clinton’s capture he mentions how when his family on their farm ran out of coffee, they would grind up okra seeds to be used in place of coffee grinds. When he was first captured by the Comanche, he tells how they roped a yearling buffalo and had him ride it for their amusement, tying his feet under the buffalo’s belly. He also mentions that they also did this to break wild horses, and they even tied his brother’s feet under an antelope (pronghorn) and had him ride it over and over for “the rascal’s amusement.” Wow! That had to be a wild ride.
When you begin reading the book, one of the first things you notice is that it is politically incorrect. The Indians are often referred to as “savages.” Yet to replace these word with something more acceptable today would not be a true reflection of the times. It also is interesting how the Indians would attack the white settlers, yet when they ran out of supplies, they would go to Fort Sill, turn themselves in to get more supplies and ammunition, then return to fighting the whites. Clinton states that the government was “feeding the Indians and trying to tame them.”
Clinton and his brother Jeff were returned to the whites after five years and, unlike Cynthia Ann Parker, did with time adjust back to white society. With so much time spent on horseback with the Comanche, Clinton had become a very accomplished horseman and roper, and later worked driving herds up the Chisholm Trail.
The Boy Captives takes place during the time period when the Indians first began to lose ground against the whites. At first the settlers, ranchers, and farmers stood no chance against the Indians, whose fighting techniques were far superior. It was only when the U.S. Army became determined to defeat the Indians, that they were overcome.
It’s important to look back on personal historical accounts such as this; they’re a valuable addition to history that we must learn from. One thought that came to my mind as I was reading this book was a statement made in the movie “Last of the Dogmen.” As best I remember, it was stated that, “What happened to the Indians was inevitable (the European settlement of the Americas), how it happened was unconscionable.” We also need to look to the Indians’ way of life to help us solve some of our problems today. They lived as one with nature. When they killed an animal, every part of it was used. We are far too wasteful and abusive of our environment, and have been in the past as well. I think of this when I see old pictures of huge piles of buffalo skulls, how we plowed up the plain’s native grasslands resulting in the Dust Bowl, the largest manmade disaster in American history, our indiscriminate abuse of our natural resources, and dealing with global warming. In my book, Rendezvous Rock, an old Indian is asked the difference between Indians and whites. He simply replies, “White people build a really big fire and stand way back. Indians build a little-bitty fire and get real close.” – a succinct answer to a complex problem.
4 Stars: Recommended for those who enjoy historical books that involve personal accounts.
The Boy Captives was first published in 1927, when Clinton, then in his sixties, told this account of his captivity. It was written on a Big Chief tablet, which I found interesting, because that’s how I wrote my book, Rendezvous Rock – all 190,000 words on yellow lined paper! The Boy Captives was actually printed twenty times between 1927 and 2009, and from what I have read, was funded by the Smith Family themselves. The book was also of interest to me because as a child living in the Elgin, Oklahoma area, I actually meet Jason Betzinez, who wrote the book "I Fought with Geronimo." I’ve also seen it titled as "I Rode with Geronimo." Betzinez also had a remarkable life and passed away in 1960 at 100 years of age. It continues to amaze me that I met someone who rode with Geronimo; that we are no farther removed from that era.
Although a book of this type is not a great literary work, it definitely is a useful addition to the history books. Clinton told the story to writer J. Marvin Hunter, who tells us that he wrote the story as Cinton told it, keeping the south Texas style of speaking used by Clinton. In some instances this book contradicts what the history books tell us. For example, the area Clinton traveled through when with the Comanches is far greater than history books tell us they roamed. According to Clinton, they traveled from Mexico to Canada and almost to the Pacific Ocean. Also, the amount of interaction between the various tribes was far more common than the history books allude to. With his Comanche tribe, Clinton had encounters with other Comanche tribes, plus Apache, Sioux, Cheyenne, Hopi, and some tribes I am unfamiliar with. Although most of these encounters were friendly, some were hostile.
What is fascinating about this book is how quickly Clinton was assimilated into the tribe. He became completely “Indianized” in five short years and conveys how he had a true affection for his adopted Comanche father. This reminded me of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was captured at the age of nine by the Comanches and lived with them for 24 years, completely forgetting her white ways, and marrying a Comanche chief. One of her children was the famous Comanche chief Quanah Parker. She was returned to the whites at age 34, but never adjusted to white society. Clinton was with the Indians for only five years yet became more Indian than white. He was an Indian boy named Bak-ke-ca-cho, who feared capture by the whites just as any true Comanche.
Most of the events told in this book are things that would have made an impression on a boy, eleven to sixteen years old. It isn’t an all-encompassing look at Indian life. He was so accepted into the tribe that he went on raiding parties with the warriors, and the main purpose of these raids was to steal horses, kidnap children, and kill whites. Being only a child, his job on these raids usually was to take care of the horses, although as he got older he couldn’t help being involved in the fighting a little. Later, when he was returned to the whites, when someone would ask him if he ever killed any whites, he would just hang his head down and not answer. The brutality was something that was just accepted, and in one place in the book, he states that “I saw so many people killed that I became used to it, and looked upon it as a common thing of no more concern than the killing of a cow.” Actually, the biggest portion of the book is about the many raids Clinton went on. Curiously absent in the book is any mention of rapes committed on these raids. Of course, during any war, atrocities are committed on both sides.
Some events recounted in the book were new to me. Before Clinton’s capture he mentions how when his family on their farm ran out of coffee, they would grind up okra seeds to be used in place of coffee grinds. When he was first captured by the Comanche, he tells how they roped a yearling buffalo and had him ride it for their amusement, tying his feet under the buffalo’s belly. He also mentions that they also did this to break wild horses, and they even tied his brother’s feet under an antelope (pronghorn) and had him ride it over and over for “the rascal’s amusement.” Wow! That had to be a wild ride.
When you begin reading the book, one of the first things you notice is that it is politically incorrect. The Indians are often referred to as “savages.” Yet to replace these word with something more acceptable today would not be a true reflection of the times. It also is interesting how the Indians would attack the white settlers, yet when they ran out of supplies, they would go to Fort Sill, turn themselves in to get more supplies and ammunition, then return to fighting the whites. Clinton states that the government was “feeding the Indians and trying to tame them.”
Clinton and his brother Jeff were returned to the whites after five years and, unlike Cynthia Ann Parker, did with time adjust back to white society. With so much time spent on horseback with the Comanche, Clinton had become a very accomplished horseman and roper, and later worked driving herds up the Chisholm Trail.
The Boy Captives takes place during the time period when the Indians first began to lose ground against the whites. At first the settlers, ranchers, and farmers stood no chance against the Indians, whose fighting techniques were far superior. It was only when the U.S. Army became determined to defeat the Indians, that they were overcome.
It’s important to look back on personal historical accounts such as this; they’re a valuable addition to history that we must learn from. One thought that came to my mind as I was reading this book was a statement made in the movie “Last of the Dogmen.” As best I remember, it was stated that, “What happened to the Indians was inevitable (the European settlement of the Americas), how it happened was unconscionable.” We also need to look to the Indians’ way of life to help us solve some of our problems today. They lived as one with nature. When they killed an animal, every part of it was used. We are far too wasteful and abusive of our environment, and have been in the past as well. I think of this when I see old pictures of huge piles of buffalo skulls, how we plowed up the plain’s native grasslands resulting in the Dust Bowl, the largest manmade disaster in American history, our indiscriminate abuse of our natural resources, and dealing with global warming. In my book, Rendezvous Rock, an old Indian is asked the difference between Indians and whites. He simply replies, “White people build a really big fire and stand way back. Indians build a little-bitty fire and get real close.” – a succinct answer to a complex problem.
4 Stars: Recommended for those who enjoy historical books that involve personal accounts.
February 19, 2024
I found this book at a little store outside of junction Texas on a kayaking trip. The book is fascinating and if you love Texas history it will surely please.
September 24, 2018
To read a first hand account written by someone who had actually been captured by the Indians, and lived with them for years was incredible.
September 21, 2020
I found this at a BBQ place in Junction TX. What an incredible story of 2 brothers captured by Indians in 1871. I was enthralled by this short book.
August 7, 2018
Found this little book while on vacation, the grandson signed it. The stories told are raw and sometimes brutal, a look at how they lived and survived among the Indians. I enjoyed reading a true account, not Hollywood spin.
February 21, 2012
From the Texas State Historical Association website.
SMITH, CLINTON LAFAYETTE AND JEFFERSON DAVIS. Clint and Jeff Smith were captured on February 26, 1871, by Lipans and Comanches while herding sheep near the Smith home on Cibolo Creek between San Antonio and Boerne. They were the sons of Henry Smith, a Texas lawman and rancher from Pennsylvania, and Frances Short, a native of Alabama and a member of the controversial Short clan of Fayette County, Texas. When an initial rescue effort led by the brothers' two sisters Amanda (Lane) and Caroline (Coker) failed, Capt. Henry Smith and Capt. John W. Sansom, a cousin, assembled a large body of Texas Rangersqv and local militia, who, along with a posse led by Capt. Charles Schreiner, pursued the Indians from near Kendalia to Fort Concho in West Texas. The rescue attempt was futile, however, and for the next five years, until Clint and Jeff were returned to their families, Henry Smith offered a reward of $1,000 for each of the boys. The panoramic tale of their captivity, laced with predictable adventures, a few inconsistencies, and the names of many prominent chiefs, including Geronimo, was compiled by J. Marvin Hunter. The brothers were interviewed in their sixties after they, along with Herman Lehmann, had long enjoyed their fame as "frontier" celebrities and performers of the Old West. The book was reprinted in 1965 and again, in 1986, by Milton O. Smith and other descendants of Clint Smith. Beyond the tale of their captivity and reacculturation, both brothers led interesting lives as trail drivers, cowboys, and ranchers. Clint, who was born on August 3, 1860, married Dixie Alamo Dyche and fathered four sons and four daughters. A member of the Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, he died on September 10, 1932, and was buried in the Rocksprings, Texas, cemetery. Jeff, handy with the fiddle and also an Old Time Trail Driver, was born on March 31, 1862, and married Julia Harriet Reed from Bandera County. They had five sons and one daughter. He died on April 21, 1940, and was buried in the Coker Methodist Cemetery in northwest San Antonio. A state historical marker was placed on Jeff's grave in 1994.
-That will give you some idea of what this book contains. I would not call the adventures recounted in this book "predictable" - "ridiculously fascinating and entertaining" is more like it.
SMITH, CLINTON LAFAYETTE AND JEFFERSON DAVIS. Clint and Jeff Smith were captured on February 26, 1871, by Lipans and Comanches while herding sheep near the Smith home on Cibolo Creek between San Antonio and Boerne. They were the sons of Henry Smith, a Texas lawman and rancher from Pennsylvania, and Frances Short, a native of Alabama and a member of the controversial Short clan of Fayette County, Texas. When an initial rescue effort led by the brothers' two sisters Amanda (Lane) and Caroline (Coker) failed, Capt. Henry Smith and Capt. John W. Sansom, a cousin, assembled a large body of Texas Rangersqv and local militia, who, along with a posse led by Capt. Charles Schreiner, pursued the Indians from near Kendalia to Fort Concho in West Texas. The rescue attempt was futile, however, and for the next five years, until Clint and Jeff were returned to their families, Henry Smith offered a reward of $1,000 for each of the boys. The panoramic tale of their captivity, laced with predictable adventures, a few inconsistencies, and the names of many prominent chiefs, including Geronimo, was compiled by J. Marvin Hunter. The brothers were interviewed in their sixties after they, along with Herman Lehmann, had long enjoyed their fame as "frontier" celebrities and performers of the Old West. The book was reprinted in 1965 and again, in 1986, by Milton O. Smith and other descendants of Clint Smith. Beyond the tale of their captivity and reacculturation, both brothers led interesting lives as trail drivers, cowboys, and ranchers. Clint, who was born on August 3, 1860, married Dixie Alamo Dyche and fathered four sons and four daughters. A member of the Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, he died on September 10, 1932, and was buried in the Rocksprings, Texas, cemetery. Jeff, handy with the fiddle and also an Old Time Trail Driver, was born on March 31, 1862, and married Julia Harriet Reed from Bandera County. They had five sons and one daughter. He died on April 21, 1940, and was buried in the Coker Methodist Cemetery in northwest San Antonio. A state historical marker was placed on Jeff's grave in 1994.
-That will give you some idea of what this book contains. I would not call the adventures recounted in this book "predictable" - "ridiculously fascinating and entertaining" is more like it.
August 26, 2014
Excellent narrative of two young boys from Texas who were kidnapped by the Comanches and lived with them for five years. As told by Clinton L. Smith and his brother Jeff. Clinton was a young lad when he was kidnapped by the Comanches. He was brought up in a loving and good family in the Hill Country of Texas and was kidnapped along with his brother while tending the family sheep. The Comanches who were a nomadic Native American tribe, kidnapped many young white boys and girls. Clinton soon had to test his "manhood" and was thrown into the ring with a young Comanche and had to show that he could fight. After the second fight with the same boy, Clinton defeated him. Clinton was adopted by the chief of the local band of Comanches. The Comanches were nomadic and never stayed long in one place. Always on the hunt for game or stealing horses and cattle from local ranchers and farmers, they would also kill many white settlers whenever they encountered them. Clinton slowly became a warrior and forgot many of his "white ways". As a warrior, Clinton would go on raiding parties, stole horses and cattle, raided farms and ranches, killed enemy warriors, rode "Indian-Style", and adopted many of the Comanche ways of life and would forget the culture where he was born. Clinton traveled much of the western half of the United States. Later, he was reunited with his white family and became a leading citizen and quickly adapted back to the "white man's ways". He and his brother Jeff would never forget what they had learned from the Comanches (Jeff would also be adopted by the great Apache Chief Geronimo). Clint would become an excellent ranch hand, cowboy, and leader of his family and community.
An excellent read and I am impressed with Clinton's memories and they are quite vivid. He had and excellent memory about his years with the Comanches and his adventures with them are exciting and intense. This is a great first hand account of life with the Comanches and is highly recommended for anyone who is interested in Texas history, Native-American History, Comanche life in Texas and the Western United States. A great read!
An excellent read and I am impressed with Clinton's memories and they are quite vivid. He had and excellent memory about his years with the Comanches and his adventures with them are exciting and intense. This is a great first hand account of life with the Comanches and is highly recommended for anyone who is interested in Texas history, Native-American History, Comanche life in Texas and the Western United States. A great read!
June 8, 2022
Absolutely fascinating
June 5, 2013
In 1871, eleven year old Clinton and his nine year old brother Jefferson were captured by Comanche raiders near their West Texas farm. Jefferson was soon sold to none other than the legendary Apache warrior Geronimo, while Clinton was adopted by Comanche Chief Tasacowadi. For over five years they lived among the two most notorious warrior tribes in North America during one of the most tumultuous eras in American history.
The Boy Captives could be described as Forrest Gump meets Little Big Man, but with one important difference, The Boy Captives was real. The Boy Captives isn’t a history book; the history is a mere by-product of the telling. This is a story of two boys and their honest account of the vanished people they came to reluctantly love
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The Boy Captives could be described as Forrest Gump meets Little Big Man, but with one important difference, The Boy Captives was real. The Boy Captives isn’t a history book; the history is a mere by-product of the telling. This is a story of two boys and their honest account of the vanished people they came to reluctantly love
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March 24, 2015
Clinton & Jeff Smith were captured from their family's ranch on Cibolo Creek west of San Antonio in 1871. The raiders were a mixed group of Lipan Apache & Comanche. Jeff was taken by the Apaches while Clint went to live among the Comanche. Clint Smith's memoir is not as harrowing as Lehmann's, but still this is an invaluable inside view of Indian life. Like Lehmann, Smith became a dedicated Comanche. And like many other captives, he struggled to adapt to white life after growing up Indian.
October 5, 2009
What an amazing read! I found this in a gas station in Austin, and it puts a whole new, personal, face on the White/Native American conflict.
Reading it is like sitting on a porch with an old man in a rocking chair and having him describe the hardships and experience of a time that is close in history but so far away in day-to-day experience it's almost forgotten already.
Reading it is like sitting on a porch with an old man in a rocking chair and having him describe the hardships and experience of a time that is close in history but so far away in day-to-day experience it's almost forgotten already.
November 24, 2015
One of the best first hand historical books about people kidnapped by Indians in the late 19th century. Anyone interested in Indian, Texas etc. history should search out this book. It's a keeper for my bookshelves.
Two brothers kidnapped from the central Texas area and what happened to them before they were rescued many years later.
Two brothers kidnapped from the central Texas area and what happened to them before they were rescued many years later.
October 4, 2014
Mind blowing autobiographical account of two brothers who were captured by fierce Comanche Indians and raised with them for a number of years. Extremely captivating.
October 2, 2018
This is an engrossing account of two brothers who were taken captive at 11 years old (Clint) and 9 years old (Jeff) and their lives adopted by Comanches (Clint) and Geronimo’s Apaches (Jeff). They assimilated into their new cultures over the 4 1/2 years they were with them and have multitudes of fascinating stories, details and insights into these and other Native American tribes. The most poignant part for me was Clint allowing himself to stay captured after his attempt to carry his little brother to safety failed because he wouldn’t leave him. And each time the groups they were with met, how he would shower his little brother with hugs and kisses 💙. It gave me so many warm memories of my boys being protective of little siblings 💙
November 11, 2022
This was a very interesting read as it complemented the other books that I have read about Indian captivity. The Clinton brothers are well-documented captives almost always referred to in other narratives and their story really shows that many captives were well treated and even adopted into the tribes. It does not condone their captivity but demonstrates that the circumstances of this time period had many components.
October 28, 2023
The Kindle version is a good deal:
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August 24, 2018
Very interesting book of a first hand account of living with the Indians. Eye opening to the savagery of the Indians.
It's just the facts, no romanticizing their account.
It's just the facts, no romanticizing their account.
January 12, 2022
I loved this book. I love history.
November 4, 2023
Human insight into the life of Indians and their captives during the 1800s.
July 23, 2017
So far a very good account of two young boys that were, I will say kidnapped, by the Comanche. Written by the captured, follows his years of captivity and how he attended raids and battles with his captors, Chief Tosacowadi and his band of Comanche.
His brother, Jeff was sold to Geronimo. These two boys tell in detail of their captivity and how they were repatriated with their family after years of being raised by the Indians.
This is an outstanding inside view of the Native American Indian way of life from two young white boys who lived it. Jeff goes on to tell of his later adventures as a cowboy driving cattle from Texas to Nebraska and later settling down as a married man.
This is about as western as a western book can get.
His brother, Jeff was sold to Geronimo. These two boys tell in detail of their captivity and how they were repatriated with their family after years of being raised by the Indians.
This is an outstanding inside view of the Native American Indian way of life from two young white boys who lived it. Jeff goes on to tell of his later adventures as a cowboy driving cattle from Texas to Nebraska and later settling down as a married man.
This is about as western as a western book can get.
May 19, 2025
March 1869, two brothers in central Texas were herding sheep when they spotted what they thought was a hog in the distance. An immediate unease befell them when it suddenly disappeared. Having experienced a number of attempted kidnappings by local Natives, the boys were suspicious and made their way towards home. It did not take long for Lipan and Comanches to appear and successfully capture them, as their two sisters and stepmother witnessed with utter helplessness.
Soon their father would be joined by the Texas Rangers in an attempt to rescue the boys, only to be halted by Indian made grass fires and skunk spray, removed from the animals pouch to turn the Ranger’s blood hounds off their scent.
It would be five years before Clint Smith was rescued, slightly shorter for his brother Jeff who had been separated soon after capture and sold to the Apaches.
Unlike Jeff, Clint would develop a strong bond with his abductors to a point that, upon being rescued, would run away from his family a handful of times to return to his Native community.
I loved this book because Clint’s affection and full embrace for the Native people allowed his writings to provide a unique glimpse into the day to day life, travels, superstitions, laws, culture, emotions and opinions with an all around respect and understanding. It’s a unique glimpse into a world that is lost in many respects to history.
Soon their father would be joined by the Texas Rangers in an attempt to rescue the boys, only to be halted by Indian made grass fires and skunk spray, removed from the animals pouch to turn the Ranger’s blood hounds off their scent.
It would be five years before Clint Smith was rescued, slightly shorter for his brother Jeff who had been separated soon after capture and sold to the Apaches.
Unlike Jeff, Clint would develop a strong bond with his abductors to a point that, upon being rescued, would run away from his family a handful of times to return to his Native community.
I loved this book because Clint’s affection and full embrace for the Native people allowed his writings to provide a unique glimpse into the day to day life, travels, superstitions, laws, culture, emotions and opinions with an all around respect and understanding. It’s a unique glimpse into a world that is lost in many respects to history.
April 9, 2010
This transcribed oral history is not supposed to be fluid prose. It is a true account of how a boy and his brother were kidnapped by Native Americans in Central Texas. It is an excellent primary source because of this.
November 18, 2009
wow- things you never knew about the settling of the west. graphic non-fiction tale of life as a young captive told plain and straight. and kids these days think they have it hard...
March 26, 2012
This is a short read, I read it in a day. Very captivating story about the lives of boys captured by the Indians, really good!
September 21, 2020
Quick rainy day read in the country. Very Monotone and straight forward, like a history book of events. Interesting history of the boy captives and the lives and experiences they shared.
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