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Three Years a Captive Among Indians in Texas
Joseph Sowell, an early Texas settler, and his family faced years of frontier danger as hostilities with bands of Indians, notably a brutal 1842 abduction of John Lowell. A chase by minute men failed to recover him, and John endured harsh treatment, capture by Comanches led by Buffalo Hump, and a brutal duel with a fellow captive youth before trials and eventual integration into the tribe.
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J. A. Leeman
Valenine
Texas
Joseph Sowell
Tennessee
Red River
Captain Lowell
Captain Sowell
John Lowell
John
Lowell
W.u.c
Ihouse
Buffalo Hump
Wichita River
Wichita Falls
Fort Worth
Denver
Texas Rangers