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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction of Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Captured.html?id=7ArCXr3e7eoC

Author Scott Zesch had a little discussed great uncle named Adolph Korn whom the family didn’t know much of beyond that as a young boy he was kidnapped and lived among the Comanche Indians. Zesch tries to find out more about his uncle Korn and then decides to research the experiences of other Texan abductees to find out more about his uncle’s experience.

First of all, this book isn’t for kids. There are brutal scenes of violence with traditionally family members being slaughtered. Despite reading the wholesale slaughter and massacre of Indian families in another book that I read earlier, the impact of reading the murder’s families being killed doesn’t lower and prepare one for the horrible acts of murder that is committed. Younger readers might not be use to the idea of family abandonment and the return to society stunning them, which much of the former child abductees experienced following their return to white society.

But if you can handle all that, this book is a great read. The lack of Korn’s records or anything close to accounts of his experience means that Zesch really has to read and analyze other abductees’ accounts. He does tend to massively quote their accounts but his analyze are good, examining factors such as the German immigrant background of some of the children and how they would respond to the Native American’s life and culture. Zesch did deep research into this book and the sources he finds will probably be a list for further reading if anyone is interested.

Zesch ends the book with him personally visiting the last refugee of his great uncle who self isolated himself in a cave, emulating his former Indian lifestyle. It is where academic research and real life exploration and discovery meet and overall a perfect end to the book. I was afraid that the book would go racist at times but Zesch seems to have respect for the Native Americans despite their violent resistance to the white settlers having a personal connection to him. This is a good read on a footnote of history that is rarely talked about beyond the 19th century.

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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch

On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become "Indianized" so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historian's rigor and a novelist's eye, Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity.

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Who's cooking at SJSK? Meet Scott Zesch

How long have been volunteering at SJSK? Since 1991 or 1992.

Where did you grow up? I'm from Mason, Texas!

What do you like about your SJSK experience? Just about everything, but especially the volunteers I’ve met there over the years and the compliments we get from our guests. 

Share your personal experience of cooking at the soup kitchen?

I’ve learned that: 

the guests like the food surprisingly spicy,

the dishwashers hate it when we cook something that sticks to the pan,

cooking dishes with lots of cheese is too expensive (and unpopular with the dishwashers, for the reason just stated), and

it’s never going to be as good as when you cook at home in small quantities, so don’t beat yourself up.

How has being a volunteer at SJSK affected your everyday life? Has it had an impact? Yes, it prompted me to start a new hunger relief organization in Texas, using the experience I gained at St. Joe’s. It's called the Mason Community Kitchen. Recently I hosted a dinner for all my Head Cooks and encouraged them to prepare a small quantity of a dish they thought would be good for us to make.

Some of the recipes were really good as well as easy. We're freezing our products for distribution at a food bank rather than serving them in a soup kitchen. I wish I could spend more time in NYC and try out some of the recipes at St. Joe's. 

Thanks for your work now and throughout the years Scott!!

  The crew at Mason Community Kitchen in Mason, Texas

Looks good! 

Years of volunteering at SJSK New York has inspired Scott Zesch (right) to start-up a soup kitchen in his hometown of Mason, TX called Mason Community Kitchen. Keep up the good work Scott! We love it when you visit us in New York City at St. Joseph's Soup Kitchen in Greenwich Village aka SJSK. 

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Books that I’ve Read

Here is all the new movies that I consumed in the year of 2022. I only put here the new items that I previously never have experienced before. Listed in the order that I saw them in. Lets hope that 2023’s list is greater. 

Books

Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC by J.D. Dickey REVIEW

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata REVIEW

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown REVIEW

The Incredible Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson REVIEW

To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy REVIEW

The China Mission: George Marshall’s Unfinished War, 1945-1947 by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan REVIEW

When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning REVIEW

A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow REVIEW

Nights of the Living Dead Anthology edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero REVIEW

Goosebumps Slappyworld The Dummy Meets the Mummy by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen REVIEW

The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O’Brien REVIEW

Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron REVIEW

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix REVIEW

63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read by Jess Ventura and Dick Russell REVIEW

Follow Me Down by Shelby Foote REVIEW

Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power by Garry Wills REVIEW

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham REVIEW

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson REVIEW

Trotsky in New York 1917 by Kenneth D. Ackerman REVIEW

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis REVIEW

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis REVIEW

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis 

The Burning Edge: Travels Through Irradiated Belarus by Arthur Chichester REVIEW

Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix REVIEW

Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long by Richard D. White Jr. REVIEW

Best Movie Year Ever: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery REVIEW

Lost in a Good Game: Why We Play Video Games and What They Can Do for Us by Pete Etchells

Conquistadors by Michael Wood

Humanity: How Jimmy Carter Lost an Election and Transformed the Post-Presidency by Jordan Michael Smith

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction of Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch REVIEW

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim REVIEW

1920: The Year That Made The Decade Roar by Eric Burns REVIEW

The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne REVIEW

Black Cop’s Kid: An Essay by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar REVIEW

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell REVIEW

Maestro Mario: How Nintendo Transformed Videogame Music into an Art by Andrew Schartmann REVIEW

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan REVIEW

The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay REVIEW