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You are invited to the Brown Bag Lecture Series

September 15, 2004

12 noon to 1 p.m

TWICE CAPTURED:  THE ASSIMILATION AND RESTORATION OF COMANCHE AND APACHE CAPTIVES

Scott Zesch, free-lance writer and author of Alamo Heights

Scott Zesch will discuss his new book, The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier, which is a narrative history following the lives of nine children who were abducted by Comanches or Apaches in Texas between 1865 and 1871 and adopted into these tribes.  The narrative weaves their rugged adventures into a single tale, set against a background of intense political wrangling and bloody confrontations between the U.S. government and the native people.  The book draws from Zesch’s extensive original research, including numerous archival and family sources that have not previously been tapped. Zesch will address the assimilation of children captured by Indians into the pre-reservation culture of the Southern Plains Indians as well as the difficulties these children encountered when they returned to their own society and their retention of Native American habits throughout their lives. 

For more information about Zesch and this book, please click here.

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