that the Comanches were going to

have to submit to reservation life.

abuductee who wanted to stay on

the plains and continue the battle.

When Quanah Parker first took him

to Fort Sill, Herman was so enraged

that he pulled out his bow and

arrow and tried to kill an interpreter.

Herman was not forced to stay at the

fort that day. Zesch reports two ver-

Parker convinced him to reenter

white society, or Herman had to be

taken forcibly by U.S. soldiers.

Herman and Adolph showed a simi-

families. But as time passed, they

took markedly different paths.

     After two-and-a-half years with the

Indians, the blond-haired (now dark-

accept that the man who greeted him,

weeping, was his father, Louis Korn.

The family was living in San Antonio,

but they eventually returned to Mason

County in hopes that Adolph could

readjust to white society. He never

did. Adolph became a hermit for a

time, living in a row of small caves

known as Diamond Holes on a bluff