Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879 Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879

Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879

The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

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Publisher Description

Here is a genuine Little Big Man story, with all the color, sweep, and tragedy of a classic American western. It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico during the 1870s. Adopted by a war chief, he was trained to be a warrior and waged merciless war on Apache enemies, both Indian and Euro-American. After killing an Apache medicine man in self-defense, he fled to a lonely hermitage on the Southern Plains until he joined the Comanches. Against his will, Lehmann was returned to his family in 1879. The final chapters relate his difficult readjustment to Anglo life.

Lehmann's unapologetic narrative is extraordinary for its warm embrace of Native Americans and stinging appraisal of Anglo society. Once started, the story of this remarkable man cannot be put down. Dale Giese's introduction provides a framework for interpreting the Lehmann narrative.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
1993
May 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
264
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of New Mexico Press
SELLER
University of New Mexico Press
SIZE
6.4
MB

Customer Reviews

DDG Moneyman ,

Nine years among the Indians

I liked the book - it is very realistic, I think.
I DO wonder a little about the “standard” depiction of the Indians as blood-thirsty savages with no respect for human life. Thieving & murderous, scalping & torturing their victims.

It may be true, but a good bit of this book is dedicated to describing events that give rise to the depiction that I mention above.

A little more about daily Indian life and less about thieving, murder & scalping would have been nice.

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