Returned From the Comanches at 13 — He Spent the Rest of His Life in a Cave
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On New Year's Day, 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was eating lunch in a Mason County sheep pasture when three Apache riders took him. His twin brother Charlie watched from the brush. Within days, Adolph was traded to the Quahada Comanches for a horse and a blanket, and within three years the German farm boy had become Cachoco, one of the boldest young raiders on the southern plains.
In 1872, the U.S. Army traded him back to his family. He fought them every mile of the way home. This is the story of a captive who didn't want to be rescued, and who spent the next 27 years unable to be either a German Texan or a Comanche, ending his life in a cave that had once been a Comanche lookout.
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Some of the great writers of the past touch on this very theme of Humans going feral and turning into wild animals with classics such as Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness '' with the river representing a metaphorical river of time ; then there was Golding's ''lord of the Flies '' about how thin is the veneer of civilisation , and finally the great Conrad MaCarthy and his unforgettable ''Blood Meridian '' and a symbolic demarcation line between the civilised and barbaric - abandon hope all yea who enter here !
Returned From the Comanches at 13 — He Spent the Rest of His Life in a Cave
faris
747 views
On New Year's Day, 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was eating lunch in a Mason County sheep pasture when three Apache riders took him. His twin brother Charlie watched from the brush. Within days, Adolph was traded to the Quahada Comanches for a horse and a blanket, and within three years the German farm boy had become Cachoco, one of the boldest young raiders on the southern plains.
In 1872, the U.S. Army traded him back to his family. He fought them every mile of the way home. This is the story of a captive who didn't want to be rescued, and who spent the next 27 years unable to be either a German Texan or a Comanche, ending his life in a cave that had once been a Comanche lookout.