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

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier is a true story about a family who was captured by Indians on their way to New Mexico. The story begins with the parents, Sarah and John, in their wagon being approached by Indian warriors who don't appear hostile. The family's horses are taken and they are led into the woods. When asked for a ransom, Sarah says she has nothing but her children. After getting them inside a cave, things take an unexpected turn for the worse when Anna starts screaming that she is scared and wants to go home. It turns out that one of the Indians is John's sister-in-law and she convinces them not to kill them yet.

One of the most unusual and tragic stories of the Texas frontier, The Captured tells the story of a settler family's brutal encounter with Indians. In 1838, Captain Brown and his wife lived with their six children in what would eventually become Orange County, Texas. One day, as he was out foraging for food in the nearby woods, Captain Brown was savagely attacked by a band of Comanche warriors who had been raiding settlements. The captors killed his wife and four of the children before taking Captain Brown back to their camp where he witnessed his final moments with his eldest daughter Jane.

[Scott Zesch]'s book The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier, begins when a young woman is abducted and taken across the state line into Indian Territory. When she wakes up in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by a group of Indians, who become increasingly hostile, it's all too clear that her future is unlikely to be pleasant.

The captors, the Comanche, were extraordinarily clear about their motives. They wanted animals for food and clothing, but mostly for their revenge on those who had lived off the buffalo and driven them from the plains. The captives knew that their lives depended on what they did in captivity, and they got creative: one woman made soap by boiling buffalo fat; another took up a trade as a cook; others turned to basketmaking and barter with other tribes.

This is a story of one family's struggle to survive in the wilderness and their subsequent abduction by Indians during the Texas Frontier. The author, Scott Zesch, was living with his wife and two young children on a ranch near San Saba when they were attacked by a group of Indians. The family was taken back to the Indian village and for years after their release their story spread throughout the frontier.

"In the spring of 1836, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Birdseye on the Texas frontier, four members of the Birdseye family became captives of a band of about twenty Indians led by Big Bow, a charismatic chief. They were captured in their own living room and taken to the chief's village near present-day Houston. Sixteen days later, Big Bow died."