Nine Years Among the Indians

[CoolHandLuke]

The Boy Captives (relatives of my grandmother)
Empire of the Summer Moon

[Hockley]

Great book. I probably read it 20 years ago, but need to go back and read it again.

[SmTx]

Another good one. Many first hand accounts about battles and raids along the nueces and frio

Very long

Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas https://a.co/d/cCek2zw


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Froggy made a thread about this book several years ago. Can't remember if I finished it but read most of it. It is a good read.

[ThisLadyHunts]

I read it years ago and always thought it would make a great movie. Much better than that movie they made about those two hardly-believable characters who supposedly drove cattle all the way from Texas to the Wyoming territory because renting pigs was beneath them, who claimed to have handily fought off numerous attempts made by cattle thieves and battled Indians from the escarpment of a creek only to have one of them take an arrow to the leg, die from it, and then have his friend carry his dead and decaying body all the way back to Texas to bury it under a tree, all while his girlfriend, Lori Darlin', has thrown herself prostrate over his coffin and catafalque.

I don't know what it is about Hollywood that they'd prefer to make an epic television series about something so far-fetched as to be barely believable, rather than to relate a more factual and compelling account about living with Indians?

Anyway, Nine Years Among the Indians is a very good book. I highly recommend it.

[AntlerCollector]

I read it years ago and always thought it would make a great movie. Much better than that movie they made about those two hardly-believable characters who supposedly drove cattle all the way from Texas to the Wyoming territory because renting pigs was beneath them, who claimed to have handily fought off numerous attempts made by cattle thieves and battled Indians from the escarpment of a creek only to have one of them take an arrow to the leg, die from it, and then have his friend carry his dead and decaying body all the way back to Texas to bury it under a tree, all while his girlfriend, Lori Darlin', has thrown herself prostrate over his coffin and catafalque.

I don't know what it is about Hollywood that they'd prefer to make an epic television series about something so far-fetched as to be barely believable, rather than to relate a more factual and compelling account about living with Indians?

Anyway, Nine Years Among the Indians is a very good book. I highly recommend it.

You sure stirring the pot this morning.

[GroceryGetter]

I haven't read that one but I did read The Captured by Scott Zesch.
It highlights a few boys lives after they were captured by Comanches outside of Boerne. \

I always found it fascinating how majority of those boys never wanted to return to the white way of life since being male in Comanche culture was a carte blanche to do whatever they wanted.

[fish4food]

You sure stirring the pot this morning.

HaHaHa
Them’s fighting words!

Almost believable??? Blasphemy.