Nine Years Among the Indians, 187018..., Herman Lehmann
Nine Years Among the Indians, 187018..., Herman Lehmann
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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879
The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

Author: Herman Lehmann

Narrator: John McLain

Unabridged: 5 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/27/2018


Synopsis

As a young child, Herman Lehmann was captured by a band of plundering Apache Indians and remained with them for nine years. This is his dramatic and unique story.

His memoir, fast-paced and compelling, tells of his arduous initial years with the Apache as he underwent a sometimes torturous initiation into Indian life. Peppered with various escape attempts, Lehmann's recollections are fresh and exciting in spite of the years past.

Lehmann provides us with a fascinating look at Apache, and later, Comanche culture. He tells of their rituals and medicinal practices and gives an insight into Native American manufacture of arrow-heads, saddles, and shields.

After a few years, Lehmann became completely integrated into the warrior life, joining in on raids throughout the South-West and Mexico. Nine Years with the Indians tells of violent clashes with white rangers and other Native American tribes, scalpings, and the violence of life in nineteenth-century western America.

About Herman Lehmann

Herman Lehmann (1859-1932) was captured as a child by an Apache raiding party. He lived among the Apache and then the Comanche, eventually returning to his family later in life.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Irena on May 04, 2024

Hermann Lehmann was captured by Apache Indians at the age of 12 and subsequently became a member of the tribe. The process of assimilation wasn't easy, but with time he advanced from a slave who does dirty chores to an Apache warrior. At some point he had to leave the tribe in order to avoid blood v......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 16, 2019

True story and its no Dances With Wolves. Need to read some Louis L'Amour now for something less violent.......more

Goodreads review by Jessaka on May 11, 2022

Cut off your Nose to Spite your Face Back in the olden days if you were in a patchy woman and cheated on your husband, you would get your nose cut off. Maybe that's better than how some white men just Shot their women. Well, this was most horrible as far as I'm concerned , . As a boy, Herman was captu......more

Goodreads review by David on March 24, 2015

Herman Lehmann was a boy from a German family settled in the vicinity of Fredericksburg, Texas. At the age of 11 in 1870 he was captured by Apache raiders. At first Lehmann resisted Apache ways, but after time came to regard the Apaches as his people and was initiated as a warrior. Lehmann's memoir......more

Goodreads review by Franklin on September 07, 2012

he was my great great great uncle his name is herman laemen......more