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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.

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I was very pleased with my order. It arrived exactly as it was described. It arrived in a reasonable amount of time.

No Hollywood history rewrite here	Customer Rating:
A real insite into the Apache and Comanche era in west Texas. The brutality is not for the weak of heart. There was a reason the settlers wanted all of them exterminated, and that reason was their behavior.

Herman Lehmann	Customer Rating:
as a young boy (about 16 years old) a older friend recommended this book to me. after 21 years later I did not remember much about this book when I read it at age 16. after rereading this book again, this book is a must have. Herman Lehmann story is one of the few greatest told true life stories.

11 Year Old Boy Captured by Apaches Tells His Story as an Adult	Customer Rating:
Herman Lehmann sat down with a writer in 1927 and told the story in great detail of his capture and ultimate immersion into the culture of the Apache tribe. The reader really gets an accurate picture of Indian life in the mid-1800s, as Lehmann holds nothing back in telling the bloody details of battles fought and the day-to-day life of the tribe. Very good book.

good book in proper context

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Fascinating read, yet must be read with the realization that this is a picture of a culture under intense (mostly wartime) stress and flux. The account happens at a time of major population incursions of whites into native lands and a time when native groups are being pushed into each other's subsistence territories by such incursions. It also occurs at a time when a number of destabilizing introductions (such as horses and guns) have recently come into native communities. Keep in mind that this picture of Apache & Comanche culture is about as reflective in the broader, overall sense as an German soldier's account of his life from 1916-1946 would be of overall German culture down through the ages. Read in proper historical context, this book is excellent. Read as a sweeping generalization of Apache life, it is bound to give a skewed impression.