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

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Price
$80.00  $74.40
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Publish Date
Dimensions
6.68 X 6.46 X 1.19 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Compact Disc
EAN/UPC
9780786183401

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About the Author
Scott Zesch grew up in Mason County, Texas and graduated from Texas A&M University and Harvard Law School. He is the author of a novel Alamo Heights and nonfiction book Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier, and he is the winner of the Western History Association's Ray Allen Billington Award. He divides his time between New York City and a ranch in Art, Texas (population 3).

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over eight hundred titles to his credit. Named one of the Best Voices of the Century and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

"Stunningly written...Golden-voiced Grover Gardner charges his rich baritone with the thrill of discovery."

-- "AudioFile"

"A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history--and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen."

-- "Kirkus Reviews"

"A fascinating, meticulously documented chronicle of the often painful confrontations between whites and Indians during the final years of Indian Territory."

-- "Booklist"

"Highly recommended."

-- "Library Journal"

"Lovers of history will enjoy this slice of America intertwined with the author's own family story."

-- "Foreword"