Herman lehmann autobiography sample

White captive, adopted son of Quanah Parker

This article is about a white man captured by Native Americans in 1870. For the German-born British physician, see Hermann Lehmann.

Herman Lehmann (June 5, 1859 – February 2, 1932) was captured as a child by Native Americans.

He lived first among the Apache and then the Comanche but returned to his Euro-American birth family later in life. He published his autobiography, Nine Years Among the Indians, in 1927.

Herman lehmann autobiography sample

Early life

Herman Lehmann was born near Mason, Texas, on June 5, 1859, to German immigrants Ernst Moritz Lehmann and Augusta Johanna Adams Lehmann. He was a third child, following a brother Gustave Adolph, born in 1855, and a sister Wilhelmina, born in 1857.

The Lehmanns had another son, William F., born in 1861. Augusta had three more daughters, Emeliyn, Caroline Wilhelmina and Mathilde, but their birth order is unclear, as is their patrilineage. Moritz Lehmann died in 1862, and Augusta married local ston