The Welcome W. Chandler chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas invite you to hear guest speaker, Scott Zesch, author of 'The Captured - True Stories of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier' on Monday, October 17, 2022. The presentation will be at 2:00 p.m. at Mims Auditorium on the HSU campus in Brownwood. Texas.
Mr. Zesch is the winner of the TCU - Texas Book Award for Best Book in Texas.
With a historian's rigor and a novelist's eye, Zesch's 'The Captured' paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity.
'A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen.' - Kirkus Reviews Books are on sale at Intermission Book Shop in Brownwood.