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Biography of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, born in 1850, who led his warriors in battle against the encroaching white settlers and hunters until there was no longer any hope of winning, and then turned his attention to the bargaining table where he continued to fight on behalf of his people.
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Nine Years Among the Indians is an autobiography of Herman Lehmann, who was an eleven-year-old boy when he was captured by a raiding party of eight to ten Apaches alongside his older brother Willie. The Apaches called Lehmann "En Da" (White Boy). He spent about six years with them and became assimilated into their culture, rising to the position of petty chief. As a young warrior, one of his most memorable battles was a running fight with the Texas...
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The author reconstructs the story of his relative, Adolph Korn, who was captured in 1870 at the age of ten from a Texas farm by the Comanches and quickly adopted their way of life, drawing from family records, interviews with modern-day Comanches, and other sources to examine the experiences of Korn, as well as other Native American captives.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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800L
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Traces the life of the American Indian chief who led the Comanches in the battle for their homeland and remained their leader on the reservation where he guided the people in accepting their new life.
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2012.
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English
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"In the 1800's, Henry M. Stanley, a reporter for James Gordon Bennett, Jr., of the New York Herald, emerges from the snowbound Comanche country bearing an exclusive interview with a rampaging Indian chief. Back in New York, Bennett impresses Stanley with the importance of finding long-missing British doctor David Livingstone in Africa, the biggest news story in the world. Stanley accepts the assignment and, accompanied by Indian scout Jeff Slocum,...
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